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A city, 1,975 years old is morphed into an expensive city today. The city that was home to many great thinkers, ruler, poets and dreamers. London, the capital England and the United Kingdom is a shining beacon for the next few centuries together. With history dating back to the Roman empire, London has a population of 9 million.
The tourist population of London has varied due to Covid but then, back in 2019, it was 19.7 million people. Sitting gracefully on the Thames river, London host a hub of tourist attractions and a must see places before you die.
Many great thinkers have shared their piece of mind about London which makes a wonderful read. To list the is truly an honor -
"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
- Oscar Wilde
"By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show."
- Samuel Johnson
"London is like a smoky pearl set in a circle of emeralds."
- William Henry Rideing
"In London, everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in."
- Paddington Bear
"London is a bad habit one hates to lose."
- William Sansom
"Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub."
- Jack Kerouac
"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."
- John Osborne
"London is a world by itself. We daily discover in it more new countries, and surprising singularities, than in all the universe besides."
- Thomas Brown
"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
"The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on."
- Arthur Symons
"London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know."
- Oscar Wilde
"To walk alone in London is the greatest rest."
- Virginia Woolf
"London is a labyrinth, half of stone and half of flesh."
- Peter Ackroyd
"One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you."
- Sebastian Faulks
"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
"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
"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."
- Dracula
"In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other."
- Ken Livingstone
"In many ways, London is like a great big pinata, and everyone who lives here is like an excited, blindfolded child with a heart full of hope and a big flailing stick. Aim that stick right and London will split at the seams like a ruptured spleen, showering you with the most extraordinary places to visit, places like you won't find anywhere else in the world. Get it wrong and the chances are you'll lose your footing and end up in a frustrated, eyeless heap."
- Paul Carr
"Would I were in an alehouse in London. I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety. "
