"The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it."

London, Prayer

24

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it."

Exlpore more London quotes

"On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security."

Otto Schily, German Public Servant

London, Nonsense, Security

"In London they don't like you if you're still alive."

Harvey Fierstein, American Actor

London,

"On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me."

Henry Bessemer, English Scientist

London, March, World

"In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being."

Steven Berkoff, English Actor

London, State

"Of course I've done musicals here in London."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

London,

"If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

London, Oil, Painting

"The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle."

Kylie Minogue, Australian Musician

London, Sun, Treasure

"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."

Virgil Thomson, American Composer

London, Paris, Wit

"I crammed my exams in London and did fine."

Rhona Mitra, British Actress

London,

"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"

Robert De Niro, American Actor

London, Now, Paris, Rome

Explore more quotes by Karl Philipp Moritz

"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."

Thought

"In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic."

Time

"A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."

Being

"It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are."

People

"My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis."

Love

"I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight."

Thought

"These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld."

Society

"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."

Church

"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."

Impression

"In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings."

Travel