Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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Sadie Frost
Actress
"My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town."
Jeremy London
Actor
"If I died snowboarding, you could honestly tell everybody in the world that Jeremy London died happy."
Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged."
Fran Lebowitz
Author, Essayist
"London: A place you go to get bronchitis."
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"I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well."
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"You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all."
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"The best thing about London is Paris."
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"London is one of the most enchanting places I've ever been on this planet."
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"Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in London then started drifting back to the countryside and the sea. Perhaps it's a homing instinct."
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"The gondola of London [a hansom]."
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"In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?"
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"England? England is in London right?"
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"And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot."
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"[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister."
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"My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American."
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"Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be."
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"Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city"
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"I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London."
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"A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many."
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"The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?"
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"[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses."
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"New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature."
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