#london

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldn't be. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#because #big #family #go #going

The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. ↗

— Phil Collins

#detail #discussed #hotel #hotel room #i

I'd never have written the big books in London. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#books #i #london #never #written

London, thou art the flower of cities all! ↗

— William Dunbar

#cities #flower #london #thou #thou art

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#back #being #give #killing #lethal

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#debut #duchess #gave #i #london

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#dichotomy #english #front #gone #great

Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home. ↗

— Kenny Marchant

#another #bombings #closer #east #fight