“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” Angela Carter

“You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Samuel Johnson

“In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.” John Osborne

“I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.” Oscar Wilde

“A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.” David Hume