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Britain's decision to send troops to the city did more to change the thinking of Bostonians than any step previously taken by London. — John Ferling

It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price all good places have to pay. — Neil Gaiman

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower. — Ed Westwick

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe. — Wolfgang Puck

I looked like a corpse, and not a particularly fresh corpse at that. — Emmett Spain

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. — Peter Shaffer

Looked at from above, west London isn't so much a city as a forest with buildings. — Bill Bryson

I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. — John Boyega

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white? — Jourdan Dunn

The city was alive, and so was he... — Kassandra Cross

Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection. — John Milton

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square. — Anna Quindlen

My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games. — Jose Mourinho

I've started to hate this city, this country, all these STUPID FUCKING PEOPLE. — Nick Bantock

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about. — Alan Moore

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. — Doris Lessing

London is one of the most fascinating, historic, amazing cities in the world! — Sophie Kinsella

The Thames was beautiful, dark, and swift beneath the billion yellow and white lights of the city ... — Charles Finch

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature. — Thomas Jefferson

London; a nation, not a city. — Benjamin Disraeli

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo. — John R. Rice

What I love about London is the energy and the creativity. Culturally, it is such a happening city, from the cuisine to the fashion. — Monika Chiang

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. — Toby Jones

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working. — J. C. Chandor

The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe. — Jose Mourinho

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing. — Ian Blair

If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia. — Jim Rogers

I'm ashamed to say that getting behind the wheel of Dirk's shiny Penismobile was actually a lot of fun. — Emmett Spain

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time! — Theophilus London

London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there. — Sade Adu

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment. — Elizabeth I

London is - after Athens and Rome - the third most influential city in history. — Boris Johnson

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. — Britt Ekland

Starting my career in London was no accident because the city and the industry here are all about theatre and drama, and I respond well to that. — Erin O'Connor

For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours. — David Nicholls

London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable. — Virginia Woolf

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago. — John Maynard Keynes

I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city. — Rachel Platten

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. — Anna Quindlen

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop. — Joseph Chamberlain

London the secular city instructs him: turn any corner and he can find himself inside a parable. — Thomas Pynchon

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city. — Tom Hiddleston

The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake. — Mel Smith

I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too. — Pierce Brosnan

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle

Arrau performed complete cycles of the Beethoven Sonatas, first in Mexico City in 1938 and later in Buenos Aires, London, and New York. — Victoria A Von Arx

London is a vast, complex city designed by the same guy who created the Habitrail. — Adam Schlesinger

London is the most important city in the world for restaurants. — Alain Ducasse

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles. — Boris Johnson

I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen. — Beth Orton

Hell is a city much like London. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness. — Lapo Elkann

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap. — Tibor Fischer

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe. — Richard Rogers

The fact is, we're looking for a very small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London. — Charles Clarke

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world. — Yanis Varoufakis

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. — Alec Waugh

Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool. — Janine Di Giovanni

In 1600, Shakespeare's London was a city of 200,000 people. At the same time, there were already over a million in Tokyo. — Simon McBurney

There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. — Sebastian Coe

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home. — Boris Becker

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes. — China Mieville

I'm a London fanatic. That's my city. I love being from there, you don't appreciate it until you go out. — John Boyega

I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park. — Danny Meyer

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city. — Tadao Ando

Without the queen pulling your strings, you're nothing but thoughts and dreams. Such things are easily destroyed." ~ General Kael, City of Fae #2 — Pippa DaCosta

London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day — Mhairi McFarlane

If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet — Jess Walter

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas. — Herman Melville

London has a quarter of the whole world's supply of closed circuit cameras, all in one city. — Lee Child

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs. — Julie Christie

I mean, electric shock? Isn't that a bit ... electric shock-y? — Emmett Spain

It was a rule of London life that anybody could be anybody — John Lanchesterter

Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar. — Kenneth Tynan

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road. — Monika Chiang

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city. — Jessica Lowndes

London is on the whole the most possible form of life. — Henry James

If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. — John Fowles

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. — Philip Reeve

Although I grew up in London, I spent summers in Missouri, where my dad lived. It's quite a liberal town, Kansas City. You'd be surprised. — Hayley Atwell

Aberdeen, a city in the northern reaches of HSBC-London. Their — Gary Shteyngart

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. — John Legend

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames. — Archibald MacLeish