The City Of London Quotes
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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
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
— John Milton
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
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
You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.
— Archibald MacLeish
I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
Aberdeen, a city in the northern reaches of HSBC-London. Their
— Gary Shteyngart
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
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
I'm ashamed to say that getting behind the wheel of Dirk's shiny Penismobile was actually a lot of fun.
— Emmett Spain
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.
— Danny Boyle
The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.
— Jose Mourinho
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
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
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
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
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
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
— Elizabeth I
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
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
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.
— Herman Melville
New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap.
— Tibor Fischer
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 has a quarter of the whole world's supply of closed circuit cameras, all in one city.
— Lee Child
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
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
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
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
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
— Yanis Varoufakis
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