#london

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#criticism #jane-austen #london

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. ↗

— Jack London

#london

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #will-herondale #london

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#hat #spying #suspicious #london

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. ↗

— G. K. Chesterson

#paris #travel #london

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#sentimental #london

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#biggest #city #created #dickens #expanded

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#different #dress #grooming #i #i love

I've enjoyed it, I have seen it once at the premiere in London and it was very nice to be invited there. But I do want to see it again now. I want to sit and watch it as a fan rather than being there at the premiere with all the lights and such. ↗

— Jeremy Bulloch

#being #being there #enjoyed #fan #i

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus. ↗

— Julian Clary

#bus #go #here #i #i think