Margaret Drabble Quotes

I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London.

London is a brilliant city.

I do find London exciting. Much as I hate to agree with that tedious old git Samuel Johnson, and despite the pompous imbecility of his famous remark about when a man is tired of London he is tired of life...I can't dispute it.

[London is] one of the best cities in the world. There is just so much culture there and so much history and so much diversity. It's just a perfect place to grow up. I studied at the Guildhall every Saturday so I'd always be in town every weekend doing that. I was kind of a city boy really.

The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

I just love the energy of going into different areas of New York.

I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.

To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London.

I like New York in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the best cities to walk that I've ever been in.

I love London, even though the weather's not great. I've travelled the world and I've lived in Paris, Germany, Los Angeles and New York but I love the parks, the theatre and the Britishness and the way that all these communities have integrated.

After Brazil, London is my favourite city. I love to live here.

I really like living in London. It is a charming city, where everything happens and there is lots to do. There is a very good quality of life here.

London has always been my favourite city. I visit it almost every other year.

I love London. I came here to discover something different. It's a great city; I like how people think here.

The vibe of London as a city is captivating. It's both fast-paced and extremely rushed but still has the calmness that would attract any big-city person.

There are plenty of cities that have given me the time of my life for a week or two - including Sao Paulo, Paris, and New York - but London has an enduring appeal that keeps on unfolding.

It's funny, but I always feel really safe on the streets of London. It's the most inspiring place to be in the world.

I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

The funny thing is, London is an incredibly interesting city. It's very sexy and it's very different, with the Thames winding through it like a snake.

As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism. It's part of what drew me here after university.

I love London. I love the variety, the entertainment, the restaurants and concerts. It's different from what we have in South America.

I have thought about moving to Dubai for a while. It's a city that I love.

Living in L.A., it's such a big huge place and there's so much of it. It's so much fun to be in Chinatown, or Downtown L.A. I was in Lynnwood, I was in Huntington Beach. I was in Venice. It's an incredible place.

I love the whole layout of Vancouver and the super-friendly people who live there.