Westminster Abbey Quotes

I love England and the historical aspect of it.

PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

The only place that's holier than St. Andrews is Westminster Abbey.

I know London very well.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

Stone of Destiny: This Stone belongs to Scotland. It was Stolen by Edward I in 1296. The Church of England should be ashamed that they allowed this piece of stolen property to remain in Westminster Abbey …. It must be returned to the Scottish Parliament which was never closed but only adjourned in 1707.

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

I lived in London, went to the London School of Economics, do a lot of business in London, and have a lot of fun in London.

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.