A Few Quotes on London

“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

“This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”

-- William Butler Yeats

“My fiftieth year had come and gone,

I sat, a solitary man,

In a crowded London shop,

And open book and empty cup

On the marble table-top.”

-- William Butler Yeats

"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show".

-- Samuel Johnson