One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
Sebastian Faulks (b.1953), Engleby
Quotes
London in Quotations: John Osborne
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
John Osborne (1929-1994), Tom Jones
London in Quotations: Anna Quindlen
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
London in Quotations: Thomas Moore
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
London in Quotations: Ben Aaronovitch
My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you’re born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train’s pulled into Piccadilly Circus they’ve become a Londoner.
Ben Aaronovitch (b.1964), Moon Over Soho
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