City Of London Quotes

I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.

There's nobody on a normal income who can afford to live anywhere centrally, so everything becomes displaced and decentralized. The city [of London] becomes incongruent. It doesn't have any coherence anymore.

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most.

I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.

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

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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.

We are always looking for a small number of very evil needles in a very large haystack, which is the city of London.

Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city

The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the city of London and the South Seas.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

London is a roost for every bird.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.

The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

I don't think there is a sound UK bank now, at least, if there is one I don't know about it. The City of London is finished, the financial centre of the world is moving east. All the money is in Asia. Why would it go back to the West? You don't need London.

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis