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Anonymous</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg/220px-Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg/330px-Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg/440px-Coat_of_Arms_of_The_City_of_London.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="505" /></a><figcaption>A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown... On a fool's head—and there is London Town. ~ <a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:London_Skyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/London_Skyline.jpg/220px-London_Skyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/London_Skyline.jpg/330px-London_Skyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/London_Skyline.jpg/440px-London_Skyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a><figcaption>London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ackroyd" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Ackroyd">Peter Ackroyd</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg/220px-Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg/330px-Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg/440px-Palace_of_Westminster_-_July_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2694" data-file-height="2106" /></a><figcaption>Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. ~ <a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG/220px-Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG/330px-Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG/440px-Buckingham_Palace_change.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day. ~ Walter Besant</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" class="extiw" title="w:London">London</a></b> is the capital city of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland</a> and is the most populous region, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Urban_Zones" class="extiw" title="w:Larger Urban Zones">urban zone</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area" class="extiw" title="w:Metropolitan area">metropolitan area</a> in the United Kingdom. Standing on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Thames" class="extiw" title="w:River Thames">River Thames</a>, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_London" class="extiw" title="w:History of London">its history</a> going back to its founding by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Romans</a>, who named it <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londinium" class="extiw" title="w:Londinium">Londinium</a></i>. London's ancient core, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London" class="extiw" title="w:City of London">City of London</a>, largely retains its <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">mediaeval</a> boundaries and in 2011 had a resident population of 7,375, making it the smallest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="extiw" title="w:City status in the United Kingdom">city</a> in England. Since at least the 19th century, the term <i>London</i> has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/conurbation" class="extiw" title="w:conurbation">conurbation</a> forms the London <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England" class="extiw" title="w:Regions of England">region</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London" class="extiw" title="w:Greater London">Greater London</a> administrative area, governed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London_Authority" class="extiw" title="w:Greater London Authority">Greater London Authority</a> whose two executive branches are the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_London" class="extiw" title="w:Mayor of London">Mayor of London</a> (the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Party" class="extiw" title="w:Labour Party">Labour Party</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a> since 2016) and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Assembly" class="extiw" title="w:London Assembly">London Assembly</a> on which Labour has the largest group. </p><p>London contains four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" class="extiw" title="w:World Heritage Site">World Heritage Sites</a>: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London" class="extiw" title="w:Tower of London">Tower of London</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Botanic_Gardens,_Kew" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew">Kew Gardens</a>; the site comprising the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" class="extiw" title="w:Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" class="extiw" title="w:Westminster Abbey">Westminster Abbey</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Margaret%27s,_Westminster" class="extiw" title="w:St Margaret's, Westminster">St Margaret's Church</a>; and the historic settlement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich" class="extiw" title="w:Greenwich">Greenwich</a> (in which the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observatory,_Greenwich" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Observatory, Greenwich">Royal Observatory, Greenwich</a> marks the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian" class="extiw" title="w:Prime Meridian">Prime Meridian</a>, 0° <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/longitude" class="extiw" title="w:longitude">longitude</a>). Other landmarks include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" class="extiw" title="w:Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye" class="extiw" title="w:London Eye">London Eye</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly_Circus" class="extiw" title="w:Piccadilly Circus">Piccadilly Circus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" class="extiw" title="w:St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:Tower Bridge">Tower Bridge</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafalgar_Square" class="extiw" title="w:Trafalgar Square">Trafalgar Square</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shard" class="extiw" title="w:The Shard">The Shard</a>. London is the location for numerous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_London" class="extiw" title="w:List of museums in London">museums</a>, galleries, libraries, and cultural institutions, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:British Museum">British Museum</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery" class="extiw" title="w:National Gallery">National Gallery</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Library" class="extiw" title="w:British Library">British Library</a> and dozens of theatres. Major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_London" class="extiw" title="w:Sport in London">sporting</a> and national events occur in the capital and it is the base for several prestigious universities. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground" class="extiw" title="w:London Underground">London Underground</a> (colloquially known as the Tube) is the oldest underground railway network in the world. </p> <div role="navigation" style="margin-left: 2em;"> <p>Arranged alphabetically by author or source:<br /><a href="#A">A</a> · <a href="#B">B</a> · <a href="#C">C</a> · <a href="#D">D</a> · <a href="#E">E</a> · <a href="#F">F</a> · <a href="#G">G</a> · <a href="#H">H</a> · <a href="#I">I</a> · <a href="#J">J</a> · <a href="#K">K</a> · <a href="#L">L</a> · <a href="#M">M</a> · <a href="#N">N</a> · <a href="#O">O</a> · <a href="#P">P</a> · <a href="#Q">Q</a> · <a href="#R">R</a> · <a href="#S">S</a> · <a href="#T">T</a> · <a href="#U">U</a> · <a href="#V">V</a> · <a href="#W">W</a> · <a href="#X">X</a> · <a href="#Y">Y</a> · <a href="#Z">Z</a> · <a href="#See_also">See also</a> · <a href="#External_links">External links</a> </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg/220px-Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg/330px-Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg/440px-Tower_of_london_from_swissre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="787" data-file-height="603" /></a><figcaption>Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner, that I love London so. ~ Hubert Gregg</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg/220px-St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg/330px-St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg/440px-St._Pauls_Cathedral_with_dome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="2560" /></a><figcaption>I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. ~ James Boswell</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg/220px-Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg/330px-Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg/440px-Royal_Festival_Hall_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2191" data-file-height="1392" /></a><figcaption>I love this great polluted place. Where popstars come to live their dreams. Here ravers come for drum and bass, and politicians plan their schemes... ~ Benjamin Zephaniah</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg/220px-Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg/330px-Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg/440px-Westminster_Abbey_West_Door.jpg 2x" data-file-width="863" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>You are now in London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow at once is deaf and loud, and on the shore... ~ <a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg/220px-Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg/330px-Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg/440px-Underground_sign_at_Westminster.jpg 2x" data-file-width="820" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. ~ <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Royal_Albert_Hall,_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Royal_Albert_Hall%2C_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg/220px-Royal_Albert_Hall%2C_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Royal_Albert_Hall%2C_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg/330px-Royal_Albert_Hall%2C_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Royal_Albert_Hall%2C_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg/440px-Royal_Albert_Hall%2C_London_-_Nov_2012.jpg 2x" data-file-width="11000" data-file-height="5592" /></a><figcaption>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. ~ <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG/220px-British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG/330px-British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG/440px-British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1836" /></a><figcaption>Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists ~ <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trafalgar_Square.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Trafalgar_Square.jpg/220px-Trafalgar_Square.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Trafalgar_Square.jpg/330px-Trafalgar_Square.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Trafalgar_Square.jpg/440px-Trafalgar_Square.jpg 2x" data-file-width="973" data-file-height="634" /></a><figcaption>London is the clearing-house of the world. ~ <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="A">A</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: A"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ackroyd" class="extiw" title="w:Peter Ackroyd">Peter Ackroyd</a>, <i>London: The Biography</i> (2000).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Emma" class="mw-redirect" title="Emma">Emma</a></i> (1816).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Lo, where huge London, huger day by day,<br />O'er six fair counties spreads its hideous sway. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Austin" title="Alfred Austin">Alfred Austin</a>, <i>The Golden Age: A Satire</i> (London: Chapman and Hall, 1871), p. 66.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London is a bad habit one hates to lose. <ul><li>Anonymous popular saying, as quoted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sansom" class="extiw" title="w:William Sansom">William Sansom</a> in, <i>Blue Skies, Brown Studies</i>, Hogarth press, (1961).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="B">B</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: B"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>As I came down the Highgate Hill<br />I met the sun's bravado,<br />And saw below me, fold on fold,<br />Grey to pearl and pearl to gold,<br />This London like a land of old,<br />The land of Eldorado. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Howarth_Bashford" title="Henry Howarth Bashford">Henry Howarth Bashford</a> (1880-1961), English physician and writer. <i>London</i>, from <i>Romances</i> (1917).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Besant" title="Walter Besant">Walter Besant</a>, as quoted in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Mitton" class="extiw" title="w:Geraldine Mitton">Geraldine Edith Mitton</a>, <i>Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater</i> (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1903), p. vii.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. They, whose narrow minds are contracted to the consideration of some one particular pursuit, view it only through that medium. A <a href="/wiki/Politicians" title="Politicians">politician</a> thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast <a href="/wiki/Market" title="Market">market</a> for <a href="/wiki/Cattle" title="Cattle">cattle</a>; a <a href="/wiki/Merchant" title="Merchant">mercantile man</a>, as a place where a prodigious deal of <a href="/wiki/Business" title="Business">business</a> is done upon 'Change; a dramatick [sic] enthusiast as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments; a man of <a href="/wiki/Pleasure" title="Pleasure">pleasure</a>, as an assemblage of taverns, and the great emporium for ladies of easy virtue. But the intellectual man is struck with it as comprehending the whole of human life in all its variety, the contemplation of which is inexhaustible. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a> (1740-95), from <i>Life of Samuel Johnson</i> (1795).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London is a splendid place to live in for those who can get out of it. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bruce,_7th_Lord_Balfour_of_Burleigh" class="extiw" title="w:George Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh">George Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh</a>. <i>The Observer</i> (UK newspaper), Sayings of the Week, 1st October 1944.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping,<br /> Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye<br />Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping<br /> In sight, then lost amidst the forestry<br />Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping<br /> On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy;<br />A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown<br />On a fool's head—and there is London Town. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Byron" title="Lord Byron">Lord Byron</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Juan_(Byron)" title="Don Juan (Byron)">Don Juan</a></i> (1818-24), Canto X, Stanza 82.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="C">C</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: C"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> is among an increasing number of municipalities, <a href="/wiki/Universities" title="Universities">universities</a>, and private foundations that have announced plans to <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel_divestment" title="Fossil fuel divestment">divest from fossil fuels</a>. In late October, ahead of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" class="extiw" title="w:2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference">2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference</a>, better known as COP26, <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">Auckland</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" class="extiw" title="w:Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow" class="extiw" title="w:Glasgow">Glasgow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>; <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>; <a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro" class="mw-redirect" title="Rio de Janeiro">Rio de Janeiro</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Seattle" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> announced commitments to <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel_divestment" title="Fossil fuel divestment">divest from fossil fuel companies</a> and increase investments to make cities more sustainable. Also last month, <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Scott" class="extiw" title="w:Brandon Scott">Brandon Scott</a> signed a bill that requires the city’s three pension funds to divest from the fossil fuel industry. Those are in addition to divestment commitments made last year by <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol" class="extiw" title="w:Bristol">Bristol</a>, <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>; <a href="/wiki/Cape_Town" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban" class="extiw" title="w:Durban">Durban</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>; London; <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>; <a href="/w/index.php?title=Milan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milan (page does not exist)">Milan</a>; <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>; <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo" class="extiw" title="w:Oslo">Oslo</a>; <a href="/wiki/Norway" title="Norway">Norway</a>; <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Vancouver" title="Vancouver">Vancouver</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>. "<a href="/wiki/Cities" title="Cities">Cities</a> are at the forefront of tackling the climate emergency and there is real momentum to move investments away from <a href="/wiki/Fossil_fuel" title="Fossil fuel">fossil fuels</a> and toward <a href="/wiki/Climate_action" title="Climate action">climate solutions</a>," London Mayor <a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a>, who is chair-elect of C40 Cities, a network of mayors working to confront <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" class="mw-redirect" title="Climate change">climate change</a>, said in a statement. "I will continue to encourage more cities to join the movement, and urge national governments and private finance institutions to mobilize more finance to invest directly in cities to support a green and fair recovery." <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ai-cio.com/news/boston-to-divest-from-fossil-fuels-tobacco-private-prisons/">"Boston to Divest From Fossil Fuels, Tobacco, Private Prisons"</a>, <i>Chief Investment Officer</i> (December 6, 2021)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Chretien" class="extiw" title="w:Aline Chretien">Aline</a> and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our <a href="/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class">working class</a> homes in rural <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a> to the palaces of London, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>. <a href="/wiki/Politics" title="Politics">Politics</a> was the route, public service the reward. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien" title="Jean Chrétien">Jean Chrétien</a>, <i>My Years As Prime Minister</i> (2007) Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007, ISBN 978-0-676-97900-8 Chapter Fourteen, Vive le Canada, p. 406</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>After a while we were left all alone against the most tremendous military power that has been seen. We were all alone for a whole year. There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? Were we down-hearted? The lights went out and the <a href="/wiki/Bombs" title="Bombs">bombs</a> came down. But every man, woman and child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1941-1945-war-leader/to-v-e-crowds/">VE Day speech</a>, 8 May 1945</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I don't know what London's coming to—the higher the buildings the lower the morals. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> "Law and Order", <i>Collected Sketches and Lyrics</i>.</li></ul></li> <li>Cockney feet<br />Mark the beat of history<br />Every street<br />Pins a memory down.<br />Nothing ever can quite replace<br />The grace of London Town. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> "London Pride" (1941).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="D">D</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: D"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>London is a modern <a href="/wiki/Babylon" title="Babylon">Babylon</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a>, <i>Tancred</i>, Book V. Ch. V. (1847).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">Empire</a> are irresistibly drained. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a> <i>A Study in Scarlet</i>, Part 1. Ch. 1. (1887).</li> <li>As stated by Dr. Watson.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London, thou art the flour of cities all! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Dunbar" title="William Dunbar">William Dunbar</a> (1460?-1520?), <i>London</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="G">G</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: G"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>London always reminds me of a <a href="/wiki/Brain" title="Brain">brain</a>. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> ones like <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, are laid out in straight lines. Like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/integrated_circuit" class="extiw" title="w:integrated circuit">circuits</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_chips" class="extiw" title="w:Computer chips">computer chips</a>, there are a lot of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_angles" class="extiw" title="w:Right angles">right angles</a> in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a <a href="/wiki/Labyrinth" title="Labyrinth">labyrinth</a>, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Geary" class="extiw" title="w:James Geary">James Geary</a>, American journalist, author and aphorist. 'On London', All Aphorisms, All The Time. (James Geary website, 2009).</li></ul></li></ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LondonStone.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/LondonStone.jpg/220px-LondonStone.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="172" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/LondonStone.jpg/330px-LondonStone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/LondonStone.jpg/440px-LondonStone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="644" data-file-height="503" /></a><figcaption>Here [the past] seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone" class="extiw" title="w:London Stone">growth of stone</a> and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>London was nothing like <a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care…Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of <a href="/wiki/Stone" title="Stone">stone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bricks" title="Bricks">brick</a>, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable <a href="/wiki/DNA" title="DNA">DNA</a> of <a href="/wiki/Trade" title="Trade">commerce</a> and <a href="/wiki/Empire" title="Empire">empire</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Gibson" title="William Gibson">William Gibson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Mona_Lisa_Overdrive" class="mw-redirect" title="Mona Lisa Overdrive">Mona Lisa Overdrive</a></i> (1988).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Shorts, she thinks, drawing abreast of this trio, are somehow always wrong in London. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Gibson" title="William Gibson">William Gibson</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pattern_Recognition" class="mw-redirect" title="Pattern Recognition">Pattern Recognition</a></i> (2003).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,<br />That I love London so;<br />Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,<br />That I think of her wherever I go.<br />I get a funny feeling inside of me,<br />Just walking up and down;<br />Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,<br />That I love London town. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Gregg" class="extiw" title="w:Hubert Gregg">Hubert Gregg</a>, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20031011213634/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/radio2/hubertgregg.shtml">"Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner"</a> (1947).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J">J</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: J"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_James" title="Henry James">Henry James</a>, <i>The Awkward Age</i> (1899), Book I, Ch. 2.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London acquired a deserved reputation as the greatest city on <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a>, a great jiving funkapolitan <a href="/wiki/Melting_pot" title="Melting pot">melting-pot</a>, where, provided you did nothing to damage the interests of others and provided you obeyed the law, you could make of your life pretty much what you wanted. And that’s why we lead in all those creative and cultural sectors and that’s why we have the best universities. Because the best minds from across the world are meeting in some of the best <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubs" class="extiw" title="w:Pubs">pubs</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar" class="extiw" title="w:Bar">bars</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclubs" class="extiw" title="w:Nightclubs">nightclubs</a>, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particles" class="extiw" title="w:Subatomic particles">subatomic particles</a> colliding in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotron" class="extiw" title="w:Cyclotron">cyclotron</a>. And they are producing those flashes of <a href="/wiki/Innovation" title="Innovation">innovation</a> that are essential for long term economic success. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a>'s speech to the Conservative party conference, 2nd October 2016</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, quoted by Boswell (11th October 1773) in <i>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.</i> (1791) by <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, <b>when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life</b>; for there is in London all that life can afford. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, quoted (September 20, 1777) in <i>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.</i> (1791) by <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of <a href="/wiki/Building" title="Building">buildings</a>, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, quoted (September 20, 1777) in <i>The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.</i> (1791) by <a href="/wiki/James_Boswell" title="James Boswell">James Boswell</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K">K</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: K"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>London faces its toughest <a href="/wiki/Christmas" title="Christmas">Christmas</a> since <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">the war</a> and the whole city will need to pull together to see us through this terrible period <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sadiq_Khan" title="Sadiq Khan">Sadiq Khan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor" class="extiw" title="w:Mayor">Mayor</a> of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">London</a> , <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-55376873">London's mayor: Government made 'irresponsible promises' about Christmas</a> December 19, 2020</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I want to come back to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,_Alabama" class="extiw" title="w:Montgomery, Alabama">Montgomery</a> now, but I must stop by London for a moment. For London reminds me of something. I never will forget the day we went into London. The next day we started moving around this great city, the only city in the world that is almost as large as <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. Over eight million people in London, about eight million, three hundred thousand; New York about eight million, five hundred thousand. London larger in area than New York, though. Standing in London is an amazing picture. And I never will forget the experience I had, the thoughts that came to my mind. We went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace" class="extiw" title="w:Buckingham Palace">Buckingham Palace</a>. And I looked there at all of Britain, at all of the pomp and circumstance of <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Monarchy of the United Kingdom">royalty</a>. And I thought about all of the queens and kings that had passed through here. Look at the beauty of the changing of the guards and all of the guards with their beautiful <a href="/wiki/Horses" title="Horses">horses</a>. It’s a beautiful sight. Move on from there and go over to <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a>. Move into the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> and the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Commons">House of Commons</a>. There with all of its beauty standing up before the world is one of the most beautiful sights in the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/birth-new-nation-sermon-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church">"The Birth of a New Nation," Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church</a>, 7 April 1957, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Home of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney" class="extiw" title="w:Cockney">Cockney</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postwar" class="extiw" title="w:Postwar">postwar</a> <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>, London is no longer a city of aspiration for the working and middle classes; it now exists mainly for <a href="/wiki/Investment" title="Investment">investors</a>, their student offspring, and highly educated professionals who are taking over the traditional blue-collar areas like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney,_London" class="extiw" title="w:Hackney, London">Hackney</a>. Today only three of the city's thirty-two boroughs are affordable for people of median income. While many of the world's richest people live in London, four of its boroughs rank among the twenty poorest in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, and 27 percent of the city's population live in <a href="/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty">poverty</a>. London's polarized economic landscape is typical of "superstar" cities. Other leading cities of <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>—<a href="/wiki/Oslo" class="mw-redirect" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Budapest" class="mw-redirect" title="Budapest">Budapest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prague" title="Prague">Prague</a>, <a href="/wiki/Riga" class="mw-redirect" title="Riga">Riga</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stockholm" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockholm">Stockholm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tallinn" class="mw-redirect" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vilnius" class="mw-redirect" title="Vilnius">Vilnius</a>—also suffer widening gaps between the top and the bottom of the social hierarchy. <ul><li>Joel Kotkin, <i>The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class</i> (2020), p. 133</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Cities like London, New York, <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> are high spots of <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> in comparison to <a href="/wiki/Albania" title="Albania">Albania</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bulgaria" title="Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a>, or even <a href="/wiki/Central_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Africa">Central Africa</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Wage_slavery" title="Wage slavery">slavery of the watch and clock</a>, the bourgeois, anthropocentric slavery of material prestige and successful competition (to slave in order to keep up standards), the <a href="/wiki/Wage_slavery" title="Wage slavery">wage slavery</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Proletarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Proletarian">proletarian</a>, the school slavery of the children, the conscription slavery of the adolescents, the road slavery, the factory slavery, the barrack slavery, the party slavery, the office slavery, the parlor slavery of manners and conventions — all these slaveries make political "<a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>" appear a bitter joke. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn" title="Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn">Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn</a>, <i>The Menace of the Herd</i> (1943), p. 85</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="L">L</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: L"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I do own I have a most affectionate attachment for London—the deep voice of her multitudes "haunts me like a passion." I delight in observing the infinite variety of her crowded streets, the rich merchandise of the shops, the vast buildings, whether raised for pomp, commerce, or charity, down to the barrel-organ, whose music is only common because it is beautiful. The country is no more left as it was originally created, than Belgrave Square remains its pristine swamp. The forest has been felled, the marsh drained, the enclosures planted, and the field ploughed. All these, begging <a href="/wiki/William_Cowper" title="William Cowper">Mr. Cowper</a>’s pardon, are the works of man’s hands; and so is the town—the one is not more artificial than the other. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <i>Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1833</i> (1832) 'Linmouth'</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Finally, I wish to speak directly to <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">those who came to London today to take life</a>. I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others – that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail. In the days that follow, look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport" title="Rail transport">railway</a> stations and, even after <a href="/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings" title="7 July 2005 London bombings">your cowardly attack</a>, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their <a href="/wiki/Dreams" title="Dreams">dreams</a> and achieve their <a href="/wiki/Potential" title="Potential">potential</a>. They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don't want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Livingstone" title="Ken Livingstone">Ken Livingstone</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/07/08/livingstone_speech_feature.shtml">speech in response to the London terrorist attacks on that same day</a> July 7, 2005</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing <a href="/wiki/Bombs" title="Bombs">bombs</a> around where innocent people are going about their lives. And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub. So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city. <ul><li><i>The London News Review</i>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050709235823/http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php">"A Letter To The Terrorists, From London"</a> (7 July 2005).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="M">M</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: M"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Despite making up only 13% of London’s total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London’s knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators. <ul><li>Mayor of London Assembly, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/assembly/commission-on-knife-crime-in-black-community">Calls for a commission on knife crime in the black community</a>, <i>London.gov.uk</i> 10 February 2022</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="N">N</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: N"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I see you, London. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport" class="extiw" title="w:London Heathrow Airport">Heathrow</a>, immune from change during long spells of <a href="/wiki/Absence" title="Absence">absence</a>, oblivious to the distance of lovers, you seem to welcome me back with no less warmth than when I left. I see you, London. How I despised you and loved you. How I hated everything you stood for, and yet when deprived of your familiarity, your openness, how I missed you miserably. At once head of the <a href="/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism">colonial</a> snake that poisoned my people and snared my lands, yet also bastion of <a href="/wiki/Justice" title="Justice">justice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rule_of_law" title="Rule of law">rule of law</a>, and fair play. And even now, as I rush to embrace you again, your boots stamp on my people in <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, while I know that my boots are nowhere safer than resting on your green parks. Why do you confuse me so, beating me with one hand while drying my tears with the other? How I tried for thirteen years to rip you out of my soul, to deny you, to bury you, but how I've longed for you to claim me from the hell that I just returned from. London, I see you. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maajid_Nawaz" title="Maajid Nawaz">Maajid Nawaz</a>, <i>Radical: My Journey out of Islamic Extremism</i> (2013), p. 199</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="O">O</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: O"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Spending the <a href="/wiki/Night" title="Night">night</a> out of doors has nothing attractive about it in <a class="mw-selflink selflink">London</a>, especially for a poor, ragged, undernourished wretch.</b> Moreover sleeping in the open is only allowed in one thoroughfare in London. If the <a href="/wiki/Police" title="Police">policeman</a> on his beat finds you asleep, it is his <a href="/wiki/Duty" title="Duty">duty</a> to wake you up. That is because it has been found that a sleeping man succumbs to the cold more easily than a man who is awake, and <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> could not let one of her sons die in the street. So you are at <a href="/wiki/Liberty" title="Liberty">liberty</a> to spend the night in the street, providing it is a sleepless night. But there is one road where the homeless are allowed to sleep. Strangely, it is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Embankment" class="extiw" title="w:Thames Embankment">Thames Embankment</a>, not far from the Houses of Parliament. We advise all those visitors to England who would like to see the reverse side of our apparent prosperity to go and look at those who habitually sleep on the Embankment, with their filthy tattered clothes, their bodies wasted by disease, a living reprimand to the Parliament in whose <a href="/wiki/Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow">shadow</a> they lie. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, "Beggars in London", in Le Progrès Civique (12 January 1929), translated into English by Janet Percival and Ian Willison</li></ul></li> <li>During part of 1941 and 1942, when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftwaffe" class="extiw" title="w:Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a> was busy in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II" class="extiw" title="w:strategic bombing during World War II">air raids</a> on London.  Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen.  But what use would our knowledge be if the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion" class="extiw" title="w:Operation Sea Lion">Germans conquered Britain</a>?  For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they?  The answer is: If <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.  So with innumerable other events of the past ten or twenty years.  Is the <a href="/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Meetings_of_the_Learned_Elders_of_Zion" title="The Protocols of the Meetings of the Learned Elders of Zion">Protocols of the Elders of Zion</a> a genuine document?  Did <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Trotsky</a> plot with the <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazis</a>?  How many German aeroplanes were shot down in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain" class="extiw" title="w:Battle of Britain">Battle of Britain</a>?  Does <a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a> welcome the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order" class="extiw" title="w:New Order">New Order</a>?  In no case do you get one answer which is universally accepted because it is true: in each case you get a number of totally incompatible answers, one of which is finally adopted as the result of a physical struggle.  History is written by the winners. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://alexpeak.com/twr/hiwbtw/">"As I Please," Tribune (4 February 1944)</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="P">P</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: P"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>I realized that my gloss as chief <a href="/wiki/Economist" title="Economist">economist</a>, head of Economics and Regional Planning... was part of a sinister system aimed not at outfoxing an unsuspecting customer, but rather at promoting the most subtle and effective form of <a href="/wiki/Imperialism" title="Imperialism">imperialism</a> the world has ever known.... The march had begun and it was rapidly encircling <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">the planet</a>. The hoods had discarded their leather jackets, dressed up in business suits, and taken on an air of respectability. Men and women were descending from corporate headquarters in New York, <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, London, and Tokyo, streaming across every continent to convince <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corrupt</a> <a href="/wiki/Politicians" title="Politicians">politicians</a> to allow their countries to be shackled to the <a href="/wiki/Corporatocracy" title="Corporatocracy">corporatocracy,</a> and to induce desperate people to sell their bodies to sweatshops and assembly lines... a world of smoke and mirrors intended to keep us all shackled to a system that is morally repugnant and ultimately self-destructive. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Perkins" title="John Perkins">John Perkins</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man" title="Confessions of an Economic Hit Man">Confessions of an Economic Hit Man</a></i> (2004)p. 160</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="S">S</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: S"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg/220px-Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg/330px-Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg/440px-Tower_Bridge_Lights.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2826" data-file-height="4239" /></a><figcaption>I don't want to go to London, I told you I don't care. I don't want to go to London: To live there, I don't want to go to London. ~ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Eye_Blind" class="extiw" title="w:Third Eye Blind">Third Eye Blind</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>To the person who has anything to conceal — to the person who wants to lose his identity as one leaf among the leaves of a forest — to the person who asks no more than to pass by and be forgotten, there is one name above others which promises a haven of safety and oblivion. London. Where no one knows his neighbour. Where shops do not know their customers. Where physicians are suddenly called to unknown patients whom they never see again. Where you may lie dead in your house for months together unmissed and unnoticed till the gas inspector comes to look at the meter. Where strangers are friendly and friends are casual. London, whose rather untidy and grubby bosom is the repository of so many odd secrets. Discreet, incurious and all-enfolding London. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers" title="Dorothy L. Sayers">Dorothy L. Sayers</a>, <i>Unnatural Death</i> (1927), Chapter 17</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You are now <br />In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow <br />At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore <br />Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more. <br />Yet in its depth what treasures! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley" title="Percy Bysshe Shelley">Percy Bysshe Shelley</a> (1792–1822), British poet. From a letter to Maria Gisborne, 1820.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="T">T</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: T"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>How different was my arrival in London from that to which I had been accustomed for many years past! In the capitals and most of the other towns of the Latin Republics the governors and mayors and the town bands were at the station to accord me a ceremonial welcome, as though I were a queen or a foreign representative of high rank. But chilly London! <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Tetrazzini" class="extiw" title="w:Luisa Tetrazzini">Luisa Tetrazzini</a>, <i>My Life of Song</i> (1921): quoted in <i>The Oxford Companion to Music</i> by Percy A. Scholes (1955).</li></ul></li> <li>I don't want to go to London, I told you I don't care. I don't want to go to London: To live there, I don't want to go to London. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Eye_Blind" class="extiw" title="w:Third Eye Blind">Third Eye Blind</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn4gl1ZTfJY">"London"</a>, <i>Third Eye Blind</i> (1997)</li></ul></li> <li>At one end, then, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Corresponding_Society" class="extiw" title="w:London Corresponding Society">London Corresponding Society</a> reached out to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee-houses" class="extiw" title="w:Coffee-houses">coffee-houses</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taverns" class="mw-redirect" title="Taverns">taverns</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissenting_Protestants" class="extiw" title="w:Dissenting Protestants">Dissenting Churches</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly" class="extiw" title="w:Piccadilly">Piccadilly</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Street" class="extiw" title="w:Fleet Street">Fleet Street</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strand" class="extiw" title="w:The Strand">the Strand</a>, where the self-educated journeyman might rub shoulders with the printer, the shopkeeper, the engraver or the young <a href="/wiki/Attorney" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney">attorney</a>. At the other end, to the east, and south of the river, it touched those older working-class communities—the waterside workers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping" class="extiw" title="w:Wapping">Wapping</a>, the silk-weavers of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitalfields" class="extiw" title="w:Spitalfields">Spitalfields</a>, the old Dissenting stronghold of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwark" class="extiw" title="w:Southwark">Southwark</a>. For 200 years “Radical London” had always been more heterogeneous and fluid in its social and occupational definition than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Midlands" class="extiw" title="w:English Midlands">Midlands</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_England" class="extiw" title="w:Northern England">Northern</a> centres grouped around two or three staple industries. Popular movements in London have often lacked the coherence and stamina which results from the involvement of an entire community in common occupational and social tensions. On the other hand, they have generally been more subject to intellectual and “ideal” motivations. A <a href="/wiki/Propaganda" title="Propaganda">propaganda</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ideas" title="Ideas">ideas</a> has had a larger audience than in the North. London Radicalism early acquired a greater sophistication from the need to knit diverse agitations into a common movement. New <a href="/wiki/Theory" title="Theory">theories</a>, new <a href="/wiki/Argument" title="Argument">arguments</a>, have generally first effected a junction with the popular movement in London, and travelled outwards from London to the provincial centres. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/E._P._Thompson" title="E. P. Thompson">E. P. Thompson</a>, <i>The Making of the English Working Class</i> (1963), pp. 20-21</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="W">W</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: W"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>We looked o'er London, where men wither and choke,<br />Roofed in, poor souls, renouncing stars and skies,<br />And lore of woods and wild wind prophecies,<br />Yea, every voice that to their fathers spoke. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Watts-Dunton" title="Theodore Watts-Dunton">Theodore Watts-Dunton</a>, "A Talk on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Bridge" class="extiw" title="w:Waterloo Bridge">Waterloo Bridge</a>: The Last Sight of <a href="/wiki/George_Borrow" title="George Borrow">George Borrow</a>", in <i>The Coming of Love and Other Poems</i> (London: John Lane, 1897), p. 150</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>You've got the temperament of a scholar, and you live on your own and write <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a>. You don't have anything to do with <a href="/wiki/Civilization" title="Civilization">civilization</a>. You've been in London a few days and you can't wait to get back home. But how about the people who can't write books -- people there's no outlet for in this civilization? What about your new men who don't know what to do? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Wilson" title="Colin Wilson">Colin Wilson</a> in <i>The Glass Cage</i> (1966), p. 200</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Z">Z</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Z"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg/220px-Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg/330px-Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg/440px-Big_Ben_at_sunset_-_2014-10-27_17-30.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5575" data-file-height="3774" /></a><figcaption>I love this great polluted place <br />Where popstars come to live their dreams <br />Here ravers come for drum and bass <br />And politicians plan their schemes <br />The music of the world is here <br />The city can play any song <br />They came to here from everywhere <br />'Tis they that made the city strong.<br />~ <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Zephaniah" title="Benjamin Zephaniah">Benjamin Zephaniah</a> </figcaption></figure> <ul><li>I love this great <a href="/wiki/Pollution" title="Pollution">polluted</a> place<br />Where popstars come to live their dreams<br />Here ravers come for <a href="/wiki/Drum" title="Drum">drum</a> and bass<br />And <a href="/wiki/Politicians" title="Politicians">politicians</a> plan their schemes<br />The <a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">music</a> of the world is here<br />The city can play any song<br />They came to here from everywhere<br />'Tis they that made the city strong <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Zephaniah" title="Benjamin Zephaniah">Benjamin Zephaniah</a>, <i>The London Breed</i> (1998).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hoyt's_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"><span id="Hoyt.27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations"></span><i>Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hoyt%27s_New_Cyclopedia_Of_Practical_Quotations_(1922)" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)">Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations</a></i> (1922), p. 462.</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Veni Gotham, ubi multos,<br />Si non omnes, vidi stultos.</i> <ul><li>I came to Gotham, where I saw many who were fools, if not all.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Brathwait&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Brathwait (page does not exist)">Richard Brathwait</a>, <i>Drunken Barnaby's Journal</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London is the clearing-house of the world. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Chamberlain" title="Joseph Chamberlain">Joseph Chamberlain</a>, speech, Guildhall, London (Jan. 19, 1904).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is—a periodical breaking out, we suppose—a sort of spring rash. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <i>Greenwich Fair</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London is a roost for every <a href="/wiki/Birds" title="Birds">bird</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Disraeli" title="Benjamin Disraeli">Benjamin Disraeli</a>, <i>Lothair</i>, Chapter XI.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson" title="Ralph Waldo Emerson">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a>, <i>English Traits</i>, <i>Result</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>He was born within the sound of Bow-bell. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fuller" title="Thomas Fuller">Thomas Fuller</a>, <i>Gnomologia</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>London! the needy villain's general home,<br />The common sewer of <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> and of <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a>!<br />With eager thirst, by <a href="/wiki/Foolishness" title="Foolishness">folly</a> or by <a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">fate</a>,<br />Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Johnson" title="Samuel Johnson">Samuel Johnson</a>, <i>London</i>, line 93.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Then in town let me live, and in town let me die<br />For I own I can't relish the country, not I.<br />If I must have a villa in <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">summer</a> to dwell,<br />Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Captain_Morris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Captain Morris (page does not exist)">Captain Morris</a>, <i>The Contrast</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The way was long and weary,<br /> But gallantly they strode,<br /> A country lad and lassie,<br /> Along the heavy road.<br /> The night was dark and stormy,<br /> But blithe of heart were they,<br /> For shining in the distance<br /> The lights of London lay.<br />O gleaming lights of London, that gem of the city's crown;<br />What fortunes be within you, O Lights of London Town! 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Sims</a>, song in <i>Lights of London</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The lungs of London. <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Windham&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Windham (page does not exist)">William Windham</a>, referring to the parks of London in a debate in House of Commons (June 30, 1808), attributes it to Lord Chatham.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=London&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; border: solid #aaa 1px; margin: 0 0 1em 1em; font-size: 90%; background: #f9f9f9; width: 250px; padding: 4px; spacing: 0px; text-align: left; float: right;"> <div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wikipedia"><img alt="Wikipedia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/50px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="46" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/75px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/100px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="103" data-file-height="94" /></a><figcaption>Wikipedia</figcaption></figure></div> <div style="margin-left: 60px;"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article about: <div style="margin-left: 10px;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:London">London</a></b></i></div> </div> </div> <div class="noprint metadata" style="clear: right; 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