579 Quotes About New-york-city

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.

Vulgar of manner, overfed,Overdressed and underbred;Heartless, Godless, hell's delight,Rude by day and lewd by night…Crazed with avarice, lust and rum,New York, thy name's delirium.

As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.

I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.