London Quotes

London doesn't belong to anybody - it's whoever's on the go at any given moment.

London collects everything from everywhere

Today sees the closing of a wonderful Games in a wonderful city. We lit the flame and lit up the world.

On the first day of these Games I said we were determined to do it right. I said that these Games would see the best of us... On this last day I can conclude with these words: "When our time came - Britain we did it right. Thank you!"

Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Though Pindaric, it is not in dactylo-epitrites but in alcaics - but we must not stand in the way of progress...

It is not a shambles.

My word is my bond.

In London when someone is confronted with eccentricity or something that's strange, they run towards it to better understand it, whereas in the States, if you're confronted with something different, you recoil in terror and run from it.

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life

Destruction is easy, but what have you created?

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Men. You can't live with them, you can't murder them in cold blood without criminal penalty. Damn.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Drop the bomb!

It was all very simple; we had to choose between the English of Boston and the English of London. The English of London were farther away and we hated them less.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted.

When men were all asleep the snow came flying,
In large white flakes falling on the city brown,
Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying,
Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.

The funniest things are the forbidden.