London Quotes

Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced and I know I would have won gold.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.

I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

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

I've always wanted to perform on the London stage.

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.

Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Snooker has just been a British-based sport for such a long time and when I started at 18 the furthest you'd go would be London.

I want to win a gold medal in London.

I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

I like where I live here, in London.

Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

The objective is to do things well in London.

When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.