London isn’t a stodgy place. Trend-setting London is to the United Kingdom what New York City is to the United States: the spot where everything happens first (or ultimately ends up).

Donald Olson (b.1950), England For Dummies

I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.

Rachel Weisz (b.1970)

Spare London, for London is like the city that thou lovedst.

Thomas Nash (1593-1647), Christ’s Tears Over Jerusalem

London has now become almost like a gigantic frog! With its long tongue it draws curious insects from all over the world inside itself!

Mehmut Murat Ildan (b.1965), William Shakespeare

London is like a smoky pearl set in a circle of emeralds.

William Henry Rideing (1853-1915), In the Land of Lorna Doone