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12 Quotes for 'London' in the Database.
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As I came down the Highgate Hill,
The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill,
As I came down the Highgate Hill
I met the sun's bravado,
And saw below me, fold on fold,
Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,
This London like a land of old,
The land of Eldorado.
Author: Henry Howarth Bashford
Source: Romances
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I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all.
[Lat., Veni Gotham, ubi multos,
Si non omnes, vidi stultos.]
Author: Richard Braithwait (Braithwaite) ("Corymbaeus")
Source: Drunken Barnaby's Journal
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A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,
Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye
Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping
In sight, then lost amidst the forestry
Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping
On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;
A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown
On a fool's head--and there is London Town.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. 82)
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London is the clearing-house of the world.
Author: Joseph Chamberlain
Source: in a speech at Guildhall, London
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If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich
Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring
rash.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: Greenwich Fair
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London is a roost for every bird.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Lothair (ch. XI)
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: English Traits--Result
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He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: Gnomologia
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London! the needy villain's general home,
The common sewer of Paris and of Rome!
With eager thirst, by folly or by fate,
Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: London (l. 93)
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Then in town let me live, and in town let me die
For I own I can't relish the country, not I.
If I must have a villa in summer to dwell,
Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall.
Author: Charles Morris
Source: The Contrast
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The way was long and weary,
But gallantly they strode,
A country lad and lassie,
Along the heavy road.
The night was dark and stormy,
But blithe of heart were they,
For shining in the distance
The lights of London lay.
O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown;
What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town!
Author: George Robert Sims
Source: a song in "Lights of London"
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The lungs of London. (Parks)
Author: William Windham
Source: in a debate in the House of Commons, attributes it to Lord Chatham
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