“Nothing is certain in London but expense.”
William Shenstone, 1743

“I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
Noel Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics, 1931

“... when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
Samuel Johnson, 1777

“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, Sunrise with Seamonsters, 1985

“I’ve been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.”
Walter Besant, on his deathbed, 1901