London is the clearing-house of the world.
Joseph Chamberlain

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle

London, thou art the flower of cities all!
William Dunbar

Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.
Graham Coxon

Markets rebounded quickly from morning jitters after the London Thursday terrorist bombing.
Cliff Stearns

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
Damien Hirst

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.
Peter Shaffer

My administration will tackle these issues in consultation with the black communities of London.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.
Rodney Dangerfield

My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain.
Diane Abbott

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
Sadie Frost

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.
Catherine Helen Spence

Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
Sam Mendes

Of course I've done musicals here in London.
Norman Wisdom

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Cecil Beaton

On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.
Henry Bessemer

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

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.
Siobhan Davies

On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
Otto Schily

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
Carroll Quigley