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 foolscap crown / On a fool’s head – and there is London Town.
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz (b.1970)
London is a modern Babylon.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.
Herman Melville (1819-1891), The South Seas
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
King George VI (1895-1952)
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