City Critique Quotes

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Paris ain't much of a town.

New York: A third-rate Babylon.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

Los Angeles is a bleached-out, soulless pit.

Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.

So this is where people come to live; I would have thought it is a city to die in.

Oddly, I'm not a huge fan of Brisbane in Australia. I can't quite put my finger on why - it just seemed to lack verve, and I don't have any great desire to go back.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.