81 Fabulous Quotes About London

London inspires many to write compelling thoughts and anecdotes just as the grand city on the Thames inspires me to photograph her night after night. Some words are one-off’s while others are part of timeless pieces of literature. I’ve combined famous London quotes with my own night images of London for the ultimate list of London quotes. Feel free to add your suggestions in the comment section below.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of today.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
-Samuel Johnson

Go where we may rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
– Thomas Moore, "Rhymes on the Road", The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London.
– Anonymous

London’s like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.
– Robert Smythe Hichens, The Woman with the Fan

London is the clearing-house of the world.
– Joseph Chamberlain, speech at Guildhall, London, Jan. 19, 1904

Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner that I love London so.

There’s nowhere else like London, nothing at all. Anywhere.

I think London is sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee house for the voice of a kingdom.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. bit.ly/3heyL0y

Posted by Mark A Paulda on 2020-08-02 13:01:44

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