Quotes About Kensington

#1. Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Julie Burchill

#2. And something else came back, from that later first morning at Kensington Park Gardens: a sense that the house was not only an enhancement of Toby's interest but a compensation for his lack of it.

Alan Hollinghurst

#3. Sex & Money
The Warden of the Order of Silence
(Kensington: The Settlement Press, n.d.)

'...all the troubles of human life can be grouped under one or other of these words.

Russell Ash

#4. I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly not far away. I grew up in an area where it is a war zone - south London.

Nick Love

#5. My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful.

Julian Fellowes

#6. For clothes, I like Anna on Regent's Park Road. Anna Park, who owns it, has an amazing eye for fresh, exciting clothes. I also love Arrogant Cat on Kensington Church Street. Space NK on Duke of York Square for exciting potions. I think I stretch the term 'tester' way beyond its boundaries.

Sophie Winkleman

#7. I saw this vision with a beautiful plastic bag in Kensington High Street, ... and then you didn't see the face because he had this blond thing [indicating a sweeping fringe across his face] that was, you know, too much!

Manolo Blahnik

#8. Imagining Janet Albright, Matt Kensington's terrifying admin, and Max Ackerman, his limo driver, as a couple wasn't as unlikely a vision as he'd expected. In fact, it might be a mighty interesting combination. 'Course, an explosion was interesting-if you wer outside the blast zone.

Joey W. Hill

#9. When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.

Natalie Imbruglia

#10. You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan's adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens.

J.M. Barrie

#11. Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Mariella Frostrup

#12. Kensington Market is a must visit place in Toronto.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#13. Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H. It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#14. Diana and I had a very good relationship with no personal problems. The only problem we did have was with the media, and the only place we could have any real privacy was at Kensington Palace, as they could not get to us there.

Hasnat Khan

#15. I did films with Wanda Ventham, Benedict's mother, and we lived in the same area, in Kensington. So I'd be out with my pram and Wanda and I would be talking and there was poor little Benedict, who I suppose was about four, standing there while we were gossiping in the high street for hours!

Una Stubbs

#16. The explanation, said Mr Glowry, is very satisfactory. The Great Mogul has taken lodgings at Kensington, and the external part of the ear is a cartilaginous funnel.

Thomas Love Peacock

#17. I thought you were more like GI Joe, but now that I know about the cape, you sound more like Superman." Mia Kensington to Colby Winters

Cristin Harber

#18. Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

Claire Tomalin

#19. The Fugitive"

Thanks be to God the world is wide,
And I am going far from home,
For I forgot in Camelot
The man I loved in Rome,

And I forgot in Kensington
The man I loved in Kew;
And there must be a place for me
To think no more of you.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#20. The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

J.M. Barrie

#21. He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside

Anne Marsh

#22. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

J.M. Barrie

#23. You can't make a horror movie without breaking heads!

Kensington Gore

#24. You know, sex at seventy-six is getting very dangerous for my health ... since I live at seventy-nine!

Kensington Gore

#25. Follow YOUR dreams because no one else can.

Kensington Gore

#26. Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors

Kensington Roth

#27. The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

J.M. Barrie

#28. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Kensington Gore

#29. I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off!

Kensington Gore

#30. In every bush lies a nest.

Kensington Roth

#31. Just as making an omelette & breaking eggs you can't make a horror film without breaking a few heads!

Kensington Gore

#32. He decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.

J.M. Barrie

#33. It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

J.M. Barrie

#34. Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you know now that you ought not to do this, for he is very likely taking it to Peter
Pan.

J.M. Barrie

#35. Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.

Kensington Gore

#36. An average director directs. A good director leads and follows at the same time.

Kensington Gore

#37. I love him.
I want him.
I need him.
I breathe him.

Ginger Scott