London quotes

Discover the charm and charisma of London through timeless quotes. Explore captivating words that celebrate the essence of the vibrant city.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

- William Butler Yeats

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

- Richard O'Brien

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

- Richard O'Brien

Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.

- Richard O'Brien

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

- Frank Auerbach

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

- Kylie Minogue

London is a modern Babylon.

- Benjamin Disraeli

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

- Ben Kingsley

Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

- Richard O'Brien

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

- William Hogarth

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.

- George Gissing

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

- George Gissing

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

- Henry Bessemer

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

- George Carey

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.

- Henry Mayhew

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

- Harvey Fierstein

London is the clearing-house of the world.

- Joseph Chamberlain

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

- Ryan Reynolds

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

- Richard O'Brien

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

- Lillie Langtry