Quotes About London Fog

#1. In this circle, one thought, married, and died. Outside it were poverty and vulgarity for ever trying to enter, just as the London fog tries to enter the pine-woods pouring through the gaps in the northern hills. But,

E. M. Forster

#2. Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

O. Henry

#3. The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

Greta Garbo

#4. Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

Michael Crawford

#5. I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

Miles Teller

#6. Before Turner there was no fog in London.

Oscar Wilde

#7. Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Geneen Roth

#8. It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

Charles Dickens

#9. A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.

Christopher Pike

#11. Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city. It is fog that gives it its magnificent amplitude ... its regular and massive blocks become grandiose in that mysterious mantle.

Claude Monet

#12. Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the big thoroughfares.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

Jack W. Szostak

#14. Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

Ada Leverson

#16. Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, okay? They make a billion dollars a day.

Donald Trump

#17. I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

Julie Christie

#18. He slithers his arms about

Lena Black

#19. Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.

Kevin Kelly

#20. Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'

Damien Fahey

#21. The idea that she simply wanted to help him damn near took the wind out of him.

Jenny Holiday

#22. As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

Warren Spector

#23. True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#24. All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings beating high in the blue air far above it ... bearing them all away to the green fields in the South.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#25. If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

Irwin Shaw

#26. London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!

Mehmet Murat Ildan