Quotes about London

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Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be h — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared — Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
It makes no sense to compare yourself with others because there will always be better & worse people than you out there. — Pablo
-On creating a false identity for Pheobe-"A widow," Ava insisted."How did her husband die?" Greer asked."I hardly know," — Julia London, The Dangers of Deceiving a Viscount
Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every tree in the forest. — Summer Lane, Running with Wolves
I didn't care, because I loved him, and that was the end of every argument and the beginning of every promise. — Summer Lane, Running with Wolves
It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the ho — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. — Benedict Cumberbatch
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had — T.S. Eliot, Selected Poems
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English i — Alexander McCall Smith, Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. — Kay Goodstadt, Love and Death Over Tea
Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no Answer I — Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites... — Darcus Howe
You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to li — Charlotte Eriksson
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hang — Charlotte Eriksson
And marbled clouds go scudding byThe many-steepled London sky. — John Betjeman, Selected Poems
I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow;A mark in every face I meet,Marks of we — William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes.I wipe them away with a blac — Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars — Amanda Craig, A Vicious Circle
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his p — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir