Quotes and Sayings about London

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Quotes and Sayings about London

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

1

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

1

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard - Mr. Timothy

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

John Cleese

London. The beating heart of England.

Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes

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.

Daniel Radcliffe

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

Fashion Creativity

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

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

Daisy Ridley

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

Manolo Blahnik

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Vivienne Westwood

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Richard Edelman

Stockholm Chicago Seoul Tokyo

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I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

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I wish that without me your heart would break,
I wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake.
I wish that without me you couldn't eat,
I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep.

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And I wish that we could see if we could be something.

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear

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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Thomas Carlyle

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Jimi Hendrix

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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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If my critics saw me walking on water, they would say it's because I can't swim.

Margaret Thatcher

1

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Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away - and going away means forgetting.

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I listen to my words, but they fall far below
I let my music take me, where my heart wants to go

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