One of the most iconic cities in the world, London doesn’t need an introduction. From Red Telephone Boxes to Big Ben to Westminster Abbey to River Thames to London Eye – London is drool-worthy. No wonder so many people have raved about the capital of the United Kingdom. If you’re looking for some inspiration for your next trip to the UK or a nice London caption for Instagram, here, we bring you our favorite London quotes.

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Best Quotes about London

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
~ Samuel Johnson

The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
~ Henry James.

 Yes, London. You know, fish, chips, cup o tea, bad food, worse weather, Mary-fucking-Poppins. London!
~ Dennis Farina

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
~ V. S. Naipaul

A person who is tired of London is not necessarily tired of life; it might be that he just can’t find a parking place.
~ Paul Theroux

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets, and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
~ Charlotte Brontë

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It’s the second biggest cause of death among the English in general. Sheer boredom.
~ Alexander McCall Smith

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
~ Virginia Woolf

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
~ George VI

There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.
~ Herman Melville

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It’s freezing and it starts to rain and it’s the ugliest bus I’ve ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.
~ David Thewlis

I’ve been walking about London for the last 30 years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
~ Walter Besant

I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people.
~ James Boswell

This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
~ William Butler Yeats

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
~ King George VI

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Short London Quotes for Instagram

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
~ Oscar Wilde

London is a modern Babylon.
~ Benjamin Disraeli 

Nothing is certain in London but expense.
~ William Shenstone

“London is a splendid place to live in for those who can get out of it.
~ George John Gordon Bruch, Lord Balfour of Burleigh

I think London’s sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics.
~ Rachel Weisz

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
~ Peter Shaffer

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.
~ William Dunbar

 London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.
~ Kano

The parks be the lungs of London.
~ Charles Dickens

If you’re curious, London is an amazing place.
~ David Bailey

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London Travel Quotes

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

There’s a hole in the world…Like a great black pit…And the vermin of the world…Inhabit it…And it goes by the name of London.
~ Stephen Sondheim

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.
~ Ali Fazal

As to London, we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
~ Goldwin Smith

I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula

You will recognise, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realise for the first time how young the policemen look.
~ Sir Seymour Hicks.

London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess.
~ James Geary

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air — or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the things I most liked about the city – apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river – was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.
~ Julia Gregson

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
~ Samuel Johnson.

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Famous Sayings about London

In London, everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in.
~ Paddington Bear

I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
~ Noël Coward

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
~ Jane Austen 

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

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
~ Oscar Wilde

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
~ Stephen Fry

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Funny London Quotes

A bad day in London is still better than a good day anywhere else.

To walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
~ Virginia Woolf.

London is a roost for every bird.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.
~ William Sansom.

In London, we don’t give a toss who you are. The taxman might though.

In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
~ John Osbourne

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London Captions

Keep calm and go to London.

From London with love.

There’s no place like London.

London is always a good idea.

Wear your crown and go to London.

Up in the clouds, on my way to London.

Relationship status: crushing on Big Ben.

Here’s the hot tea from London.

More London Instagram Captions

Falling hard for London.

London will always be on my mind.

Living the London life.

Skyhigh in the London Eye.

There will always be London.

London calling!

Living like the royals.

Let’s cross that Tower Bridge when we get to it.

Doing this sweet thing called traveling to London.

Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a ticket to London and that’s pretty much the same thing.

London Poems: London in Poetry

You are now…In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow…At once is deaf and loud and on the shore…Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more…Yet in its depth what treasures!
~ P.B. Shelley

Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…That I love London so…Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…That I think of her wherever I go…I get a funny feeling inside of me…Just walking up and down…Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner…That I love London town.
~ Hubert Gregg

The human moths about the light…Dash and cling close in dazed delight…And burn and laugh, the world and wife…For this is London, this is life!
~ Richard Le Gallienne

London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors, and passages. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
~ Anna Quindlen

A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping…Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye…Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping…In sight, then lost amidst the forestry…Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping…On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown…On a fool’s head – and there is London Town. 
~ Lord Byron

I swear to god I heard the earth inhale…Moments before it spat its rain down on me…I swear to God in this light and on this evening… London’s become the most beautiful thing I’ve seen…
~ The Editors

I wandered through each chartered street…Near where the chartered Thames does flow…A mark in every face I meet…Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
~ William Blake

So how can you tell me you’re lonely, And say for you that the sun don’t shine? Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London…I’ll show you something to make you change your mind…
~ Ralph McTell

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Funny London Captions and London Puns

London is my cup of tea.

The street art in London is very ad–mural–able.

This little piggy went to Camden Market.

Home is where the palace is.

Sticks and scones may break my bones.

The traffic in London is like a Piccadilly Circus.

From now on, I’m posting on Instagram from across the pond.

Here I go to Big Ben on my own.

Cheaper by the London.

Visiting Buckingham Palace, but I’m having a bad heir day.

I’m about to enjoy the showers of London.

Having the best Thames in London.

Watching the River Thames is one of the world’s most famous live streams.

Some More Puns about London

Eye came. Eye saw. Eye conquered. London, Eye’m a fan!

I can’t be Thamed.

Where have you Ben all my life?

50 shades of Earl Grey.

I tried to grab a pic of London fog, but I mist.

Talk British to me.

Never met a scone I didn’t like.

Mind the gap!

Can you pass the tea and scones, please?

Feeling ticked off at Big Ben.

London Jokes

All London policemen have disappeared! Investigators are out of Leeds.

It should be illegal for London to go into lockdown over Christmas!… That’s capital punishment!

Why are policemen in London so tall? Because they’re paid by the Yard!

I know a girl from London named Brittany. I know another girl from New York named Americany.

LondON. LondOFF.

You know what New York City said to London when it was his turn? Europe.

I can’t Stanmore of these jokes.

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Hope you like our list of quotes on London. Which one is your all-time favorite from all the London city quotes?

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