Famous London Quotes

#1. I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

Karen Gillan

#2. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

Debbie Macomber

#3. My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini.

Christopher Lee

#4. Are you as famous in your world as Kell is here?"
Lila thought of the wanted posters lining her London. "Not for the same reasons.

V.E Schwab

#5. You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

William Hazlitt

#6. Now the Gielgud Theater is a very famous old theater, because it was originally called the Globe, and the Globe is where my mother made her very first professional appearance in London, was at the Globe Theater.

Angela Lansbury

#7. I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.

David Walliams

#8. At the bottom of the poster was the famous Samuel Johnson quote I've now heard repeated, mangled, and paraphrased many times: When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Craig Taylor

#9. And there is London!
England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles Her greatness; gloriously she rules, At once the awe and sceptre of the world.

Robert Montgomery

#10. I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life ... I can't dispute it.

Bill Bryson

#11. I wasn't part of the Taboo crowd the same way I was part of the New Romantics. I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.

Boy George

#12. From Europe. They had been away for three months, having left in February to attend a famous medical congress in London; and certain things, which

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Nobody's going to say hello to me in the street, really, because there'll be someone a bit more famous coming along the street in a minute. That typifies London, really.

Ken Stott

#14. Oh, London is a fine town,
A very famous city,
Where all the streets are paved with gold,
And all the maidens pretty,
--G. Colman (the Younger)

Mark Williams

#15. London's Windmill Theater grew famous for its nude tableaux. During the 1940 and 1950, this theater overcame the objections of censors by agreeing that none of its naked actors would move any part of his/her body.

Lynda Bellingham