One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.

Sebastian Faulks (b.1953), Engleby

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

John Osborne (1929-1994), Tom Jones

London opens to you like a novel itself . . . It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

Anna Quindlen (b.1953), Imagined London: A Tour of the World’s Greatest Fictional City

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Rhymes on the Road, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore