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London, with its monotonous and melancholy houses, seems like an inharmonious patchwork, as if pieced together without design. Yet it is lovable in its sprawling confusion. -- Joseph Fort Newton
Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs. -- Nicolas Roeg
Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne. -- William Shakespeare
Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order. -- Geert Mak
Cresington Lane, There's an old public toilet with an old broken -- Jason Hall
If you're curious, London's an amazing place. -- David Bailey
And there is London!
England's heart and soul. By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, She circulates through countless lands and isles Her greatness; gloriously she rules, At once the awe and sceptre of the world. -- Robert Montgomery
The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. -- Tony Benn
There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons. Herbert -- H. H. Asquith
I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe. -- J.g. Ballard
The countryside they -- Karl Schroeder
I love living in London. -- Trevor Mcdonald
By confirming the importance of politics and politicians in Britain, we can build from the bottom up and begin to reverse the worrying anti-politics trend, which will empower the elite technocrats and leave defenceless the man or woman in the street with a mere vote to cast. -- David Blunkett
Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain. -- Tony Blair
But now behold,
In the quick forge and working-house of thought,
How London doth pour out her citizens! -- William Shakespeare
London: A place you go to get bronchitis. -- Fran Lebowitz
I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe -- Kenneth Clarke
Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years. -- Evan Davis
Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London. -- Ken Livingstone
To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want? -- Andy Zaltzman
Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland. -- Nicola Sturgeon
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair? -- Austin Mitchell
The objective is to do things well in London. -- Dayron Robles
We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up. -- George Osborne
Shropshire, the fatlands of Gloucestershire, -- Kate Atkinson
London is the clearing-house of the world. -- Joseph Chamberlain
Can it be the old devil's house? I've heard he has a house in North London. -- G.k. Chesterton
I love London and British women. -- Matthew Morrison
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Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. -- Anthony Trollope
[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary. -- Thomas Jefferson
I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir. -- David Cameron
I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado. -- Henry Howarth Bashford
The House of Lords has many fine aspects, but at its heart, it is a betrayal of the core democratic principle that those in the enlightened world hold so dear - that those who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who must obey those laws. -- Charles Kennedy
We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. England is the mother of Parliaments. -- John Bright
I love working in London. -- Kathleen Rose Perkins
As London is suddenly promoted as a super-wealth brand, the England outside London shivers beneath cutbacks, tight circumstances and economic disasters. -- Morrissey
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law. -- Benjamin Disraeli
London, thou art the flower of cities all! -- William Dunbar
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament. -- William Cecil, 1St Baron Burghley
The sight of London to my exiled eyes
Is as Elysium to a new-come soul. -- Christopher Marlowe
My goal is to have a Firm Britain. -- Fern Britton
Julian of Norwich, -- Louise Penny
Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had -- Robert Galbraith
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. -- Alexander Pope
On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament. -- John Allen Fraser
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. -- A.e. Housman
Henry Dalton, Marquess of Cavendish, -- Amylynn Bright
I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics. -- Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. -- Virginia Woolf
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. -- Lawrence Durrell
Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. There -- Arthur Conan Doyle
There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough. -- Ken Livingstone
We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions -- Gordon Brown
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory. -- Sara Sheridan
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. -- Peter Ackroyd
London's where I was brought up. It's where my heart is and where I get my inspiration, -- Alexander Mcqueen
I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy. -- Denise Mina
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished. -- Neil Kinnock
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about. -- Geoff Mulgan
Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home. -- Kevin Spacey
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live? -- Rudyard Kipling
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. -- Walter Bagehot
Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you. -- Lauren Tarshis
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed. -- Thomas Gray
We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights. -- David Blunkett
The Monarchy ... is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment -- Kingsley Martin
Hackney at certain epochs has given itself suburban airs and graces, before being slapped down and consigned once more to the dump bin of aborted ambition. -- Iain Sinclair
The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. -- G.k. Chesterton
Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End. -- Cyril Smith
When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London. -- Jim Crace
They have our soul who have our bonds - and the world was more fortunate in who had London's bonds than America is seventy years later. Britain's eclipse by its wayward son was a changing of the guard, not a razing of the palace. -- Mark Steyn
Arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of -- Charles Dickens
Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Home will always be London. There's something unique about the British. It's about cheekiness. -- Jaime Murray
I love London, I love the British people. -- Yohan Blake
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me. -- Gertrude Lawrence
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best. -- Robert Southey
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. -- George Bernard Shaw
But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. -- Winston Churchill
Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. -- Don Mccullin
You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. -- Duke Of Wellington
What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned. -- Peter Tatchell
You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch. -- Michael Heseltine
History, as they say, is alive and well and living in London. -- Helene Hanff
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be. -- Oscar Wilde
Palace of Crystal -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville? -- Katie Hopkins
The constitution of England is so exceedingly complex, that the nation may suffer for years together without being able to discover in which part the fault lies, some will say in one and some in another, and every political physician will advise a different medicine. -- Thomas Paine
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism. -- David Blunkett
Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits. -- Jason Priestley
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London. -- Charles Keating
I have always been a House of Commons man. -- John Diefenbaker
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. -- Diane Abbott
