Quotes About Londoners

#1. Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Londoners, with their noses pressed to cold windows, smiled, for a mid-summer storm was raging across England. Zues had blessed their land, taking away the bright happy sun and replacing it with gusty winds, lashing rain and utter misery.

Anya Wylde

#3. Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon.

Stef Penney

#4. We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the Government ignoring such warnings.

George Galloway

#5. I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.

Karl Pilkington

#6. I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.

Richard Rogers

#7. His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr.

Peter Ackroyd

#8. Given that all three of us were Londoners, we paused a moment to carry out the ritual of the "valuation of the property." I guessed that, given the area, it was at least a million and change. "Million and a half, easy," said Carey. "More," said Guleed. "If it's freehold.

Ben Aaronovitch

#9. I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

Jacques Chirac

#10. It is very difficult to say nowadays where the suburbs of London come to an end and where the country begins. The railways, instead of enabling Londoners to live in the country have turned the countryside into a city.

Anthony Trollope

#11. I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

Boris Johnson

#12. If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

Ian Blair

#13. We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies!

Tyne O'Connell

#14. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#15. People say that New Yorkers aren't friendly, but I think they're more friendly than Londoners. Here there is a front-footed nature of Americans. You can go out on a night out and meet 10 random people and stay in touch with them, whereas that's not going to happen in the same way in London.

Theo James

#16. I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?

Boris Johnson

#17. I lived the life of Londoners - and thence comes my immense gratitude and my deep attachment with the British people. I do not think there has ever been a people in the world who displayed a heroism as discreet, as mundane and as universal.

Maurice Druon

#18. I think the wolves all died when the great forests were cut down. That howling you hear is only the Londoners.

Hilary Mantel

#19. But what is coffee, but a noxious berry, Born to keep used-up Londoners awake?

Charles Stuart Calverley

#20. Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn it, like all Londoners, he knew his Tube map, and this was going too far. "There isn't a British Museum Station," said Richard, firmly.

Neil Gaiman

#21. I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

Natalia Kills

#22. What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.

Shannon Ables

#23. Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#24. Life is the future, not the past.

Terry Goodkind

#25. Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Fred Hoyle

#26. A slow dragging sound from below the walkway.
'i don't think we're alone down here,'said Punch

Adam Baker

#27. We're frightened of what makes us different.

Anne Rice

#28. All the things that have happened to you, all them years. Where you've been and who you've been with. All the different people I've met. I always seem to get on with them. If I see people I always talk to people. That's just what I do.

Craig Taylor

#29. That wind of terrible and jealous beauty blowing over me - that dark fire, that music ...

Richard Matheson

#30. How prudently we relate to our work determines whether we will be raised to a higher level of financial prosperity or not

Sunday Adelaja

#31. States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

John Shimkus

#32. Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Jean Paul

#33. I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

Flo Rida

#34. We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?

Ol' Dirty Bastard

#35. Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.

Mary McAleese

#36. How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Joseph Brodsky

#37. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

Kate Moss

#38. Newspaper and radio rule this country.

Sam Selvon

#39. I write for myself things that I've gone through.

Dolly Parton