Best towns & london Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.”

Ifs Want Humans Littles Hard Bits Can Do Answers New York Depends Couple Solitude Little Bit Lonely Towns Phones London Paris Solitary You Can Do It Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:Arman

“If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.”

“We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.”

Understanding Moral Cutting Disease Capable Madness Towns Spread London Innocent Former Bombs Latter Realism Civilians Atomic Bomb Depravity Slums Moral Depravity

Book:The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

Source: The Snowman: Harry Hole 7

“St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.”

Cities Towns London Bubbles

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.”

People World War Streets Quiet Towns London War Of The Worlds Dislike World War Ii World War I Crowded

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.”

Ifs Kind Said Bigs Source Walking Towns Green London Soup Turtles

Author:Russell Hoban

“A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping In sight, then lost amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.”

Eye Lost Sea Huge Fool Mass Sight Towns Wide London Smoke Dirty Wilderness Crowns Sail Coal Bricks Here And There Caps Shipping Tiptoes Masts Peeping Canopy Steeples

Author:Lord Byron

“The most disgusting, appalling horror of our world that we live in, to me, is sex trafficking and the enslavement of men and women, boys and girls, in the sex industry. That is the most horrific, horrific thing that's happening and it's happening in all of our towns here in Los Angeles, in New York, in London, in Paris, all over the world, and I think that's really what has to be addressed.”

“We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.”

Should Cities Streets Mass Army Towns London Ruins Village Ashes Hostile

Book:War speeches

Source: War speeches

“On the BSkyB bid, Rupert Murdoch is now in town in London seeking to sort things out. I would simply say to him, look how people feel about this. Look how the country has reacted with revulsion to the revelations. So do the decent and sensible thing and reconsider, think again, about your bid for BSkyB.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Country Towns Seeking London Decent Revelations Sensible Revulsion

Author:Nick Clegg

“The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.”

Heaven Towns London Maturity Marvelous Feathers

Author:Nicholas Monsarrat

“I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.”

People Littles Home Moving Careers Creative Seeing Middle New York Emotional Internet Towns Inspired Come Up London Pursue Middle Of Nowhere Home Town

Author:Kesh

“[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.”

Ifs Giving Said Done Running Remember Chance Audience Comedy Four Stage Fronts Speech Towns Sticks Starting London Theatre Opening One Word Syllables Gnome Agamemnon Give Us A Chance

Author:Matt Lucas

“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.”

People Thinking Sometimes Walking Normal Towns British London Norm Unkind

Author:Ewan McGregor

“If you and I took a walk down a shopping street in Jo'burg or Cape Town or London, we see two guys looking in a shop window, we think, "Oh, they're wondering what they're going to buy." A cop looks at them and thinks, "Why are they standing there? Are they doing a drug deal? Are they going to mug someone? Are they going to rob the shop?"”

Ifs Thinking Looks Two Guy Walks Deals Wonder Streets Drug Standing Window Towns London Shops Shopping Cop Standing There Capes Mug Two Guys Cape Town Shop Windows

Author:Peter James

“I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town.”

Plans Towns London

Author:Ewan McGregor

“My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.”

Knows Bigs Cities Grew Dad Grew Up Towns My Dad London Desperate Ireland Small Town Big Cities Northern Ireland

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.”

Grew Grew Up Towns London Miles Household Small Town

Author:Jacqueline Bisset

“They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.”

Looks Realizing Rooms Window Towns London Dreamer Apartment Las Vegas Terrace

Author:Johnny Vegas

“It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.”

Heart Together Spirit Forever Periods Towns London Parks Links Countryside Hyde Hyde Park

Book:I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition

Source: I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition

“When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.”

Thinking Years Country Light Perfect Deals Common Cities Towns Moved London Places To Live Light Years Brighton

Book:Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

Source: Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

“It was a strange combination to absorb - the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London.”

Middle Century Strange Concern Doctors Towns Everyday London Stuck Combination Discussion Stuck In The Middle

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.”

Men Way Wells Towns Forgiving Busy London Gentleman Apology Farewell Splendid Merry Bumps Elbows Hail I Forgive You Busy Man Rebel Angels

Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.”

Dark Cities Sea Bed Spring Towns London Afternoon Chasing Mining City Of London North Sea

Book:Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

Source: Predator Cities x 4 and The Traction Codex

“It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'. Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33”

Firsts Children Country Sometimes Happens Joy Interest Born Alive Brother Towns London Tales My Brother Biographies Potters Lanes Descent North Country

Author:Beatrix Potter

“In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.”

Long Streets Walking Long Time Towns Spending London Plenty Bookshops

Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays

“For suddenly, I saw you there And through foggy London town The sun was shining everywhere.”

Love Inspiring Sun Saws Towns Shining London Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

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