If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city ...more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strong be thy wallis that about the standis; Wise be the people that within the dwellis;... Fresh is thy ryver with his lusty strandis; Blith be thy chirches, wele sownyng be thy bellis; Riche be thy merchauntis in substance that excellis Fair be thy wives, right lovesom, white and small; Clere be thy virgyns, lusty under kellis: London, thou art the flour of Cities all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
London, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,... Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght; Of most delectable lusty ladies bright; Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall; Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght: London, thou art the flour of Cities allLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This was a great point gained; the archdeacon would certainly not come to morning service at Westminster Abbey, even though he wer...e in London; and here the warden could rest quietly, and, when the time came, duly say his prayers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou stately stream that with the swelling tide 'Gainst London walls incessantly dost beat,... Thou Thames, I say, where barge and boat doth ride, And snow-white swans do fish for needful meat:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
London Bridge is broken down, Dance o'er my lady lee,... London Bridge is broken down, With a gay lady. How shall we build it up again? Dance o'er my lady lee,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gay go up and gay go down, To ring the bells of London town.... Halfpence and farthings, Say the bells of St. Martin's. Oranges and lemons, Say the bells of St. Clement's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American father ... is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once ...a month by means of a telegram in cipher.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The only one who has ever been really mysterious." (Joan Crawford); "Her mystery was as thick as a London fog." (Tallulah Bankhea...d); "In a quick turn of her head, in a frank look, a boyish pout, in that proud glance from lowered lids, so pitying and yet so distant that in others it would be supercilious, in all those expressions of conscious beauty, which when imitated become clumsy, or arrogant, or ridiculous, there is a manifestation of what Hollywood cannot destroy. In the presence of this mystery all that is second-rate can be forgotten." (Cecil Beaton)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »