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London Quotes - Page 7

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Thomas Gray, John MITFORD (Vicar of Benhall.) (1814). “The Poems of Thomas Gray. With Critical Notes, a Life of the Author, and an Essay on His Poetry, by the Rev. John Mitford”, p.69

I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

"Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

"Biography/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

John Osborne, Henry Fielding (2011). “Tom Jones”, p.114, Oberon Books

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

"Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.