397 Quotes About London
- Author V.S. Pritchett
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Your successes were never due to your brains. You achieved them because you have “character.
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- Author Erica Sehyun Song
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As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I was nearly asleep, I could recognise her. Her shoulders were hunched up as if she was upset. Whether she was upset that she had nearly killed me or that she had let me get away, I was unsure. Then she turned around and walked to join the other silhouettes standing in a group farther back. Now I could not see which one was Rose – they were all joint together to make one.
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- Author Alexander McCall Smith
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
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- Author Stephen Moles
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The dog sniffed at the bonfire like a ship with a wet nose docking at a foreign port." -Mgru
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- Author Julia Gregson
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One of the the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.
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- Author Julia Gregson
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From the top of the bus she could see the vast bowl of London spreading out to the horizon: splendid shops with mannequins in the window, interesting people and already a much bigger world.
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- Author P. G. Wodehouse
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If there were more men like you, Mr. Wooster, London would be a better place."This was dead opposite to my Aunt Agatha's philosophy of life, she always having rather given me to understand that it is the presence in it of chappies like me that makes London more or less of a plague spot; but I let it go.
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- Author Zita Steele
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He was made a prisoner in the Tower of London and stripped of his property. He remained imprisoned in the tower until 1646.
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- Author T.S. Eliot
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Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,I had not thought death had undone so many.
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