“ This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
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“ Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is — a periodical breaking out, we suppose — a sort of spring rash. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Doing as much as we can in the critical early years of the Olympic planning cycle will ensure that London and the U.K. get the best possible long-term benefits from the new Olympic facilities and services. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
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“ Like the other bidding cities, we will be our making final efforts to communicate the essential message of the London bid,... We arrived here early to allow us to focus on finalizing our presentation. This has been a good opportunity to finalize the scripts, to take a further look at our visual material and to arrive in the centre of Singapore refreshed and better able to focus on the conversations we need to have. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
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“ A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eyeCould reach, with here and there a sail just skippingIn sight, then lost amidst the forestryOf masts; a wilderness of steeples peepingOn tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crownOn a fool's head — and there is London Town. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ I lived We had moved to London and were making our first tentative steps as a touring band-as is the way with The Saints-we had changed the line up but were starting to get the live thing down. ”
- Chris Bailey- Copy
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“ On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser. ”
- Sir Cecil Beaton- Copy
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“ Death's sting has a new meaning now that the Times of London is including candid descriptions of human peccadilloes in its obituaries. ”
- Francis X. Clines- Copy
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“ My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. ”
- Rodney Dangerfield- Copy
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“ A friend of mine asked me to open a sports bar in London, and the media were there. This fella started interviewing me, thinking I was Sean Bean. ”
- Richard Gough- Copy
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“ I am currently having the best of times in Wind in the Willows here in London. A pair of tights and a twitchy mustache are always a good start to Christmas. ”
- Will Kemp- Copy
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“ We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester. ”
- Dave Mason- Copy
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“ America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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“ There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific. ”
- Trevor Phillips- Copy
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“ It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London. ”
- Thomas De Quincey- Copy
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“ London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Actually, I wanted to be a toe dancer. My mother did an act in London. She had two girls who did a little ballet number while she changed gowns between the songs she was performing. And when the ballet slippers wore out, she brought them home to me. I put them on and could walk all over the house on my toes. ”
- Gale Gordon- Copy
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“ It is to create the best Games the world has ever seen by unlocking the UK's unrivalled passion for sport, by delivering the best Games for athletes to compete in, by showcasing London's unmatched cultural wealth and diversity and by creating a real and lasting legacy. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
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“ I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes. ”
- Nora Roberts- Copy
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“ London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones… ”
- Iain Sinclair- Copy
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“ It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. ”
- Arthur Conan Doyle- Copy
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“ A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. ”
- Donald Sinden- Copy
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“ Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. ”
- Edward M. Forster- Copy
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