397 Quotes About London

Even when she slept, her anxieties did not.

Lisbon, to me, is the Lisbon of Pessoa. Just like London is Woolf’s, or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s. Barcelona is Gaudí's and Rome is da Vinci’s. You see them in every crevice and hear their echoes in every cathedral. I’d like to be the child, or rather, the mother of a city but I neither have a home nor a resting place. My race is humankind. My religion is kindness. My work is love and, well, my city is the walls of your heart.

For anyone, man or woman to desire me, it is absurd! I am nothing but a gargoyle filled with the blood of others.

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

The city outside, so busy, so full of life, seemed in stark contrast to the deathly silence inside their home. It seemed...like a muffled silence, as if the house itself was holding its breath, waiting...

The air used to be clean and the sex used to be dirty. Now it is the other way around. Soho [London] has lost its heart.

Looking at the rich and powerful was dangerous, like peering into the sun.

These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.

The I shall have London," - Sebastian Morgenstern