Cities and City Life Quotes
49 quotations about Cities and City Life
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
When in Rome, do as Rome does.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.
Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]
If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
The city is recruited from the country.
The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
Paris is the caf? of Europe.
Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
Authors on Cities and City Life
Fred A. Allen
Aristotle
Caesar Augustus
Jane Austen
Ambrose Bierce
Joseph Brodsky
Rupert Brooke
Johnny Carson
John Ciardi
Cyril Connolly
Coriolanus III
Frank Dane
Thomas E. Dewey
Michael Douglas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christopher Fieldes
W. C. Fields
John Kenneth Galbraith
Ferdinando Galiani
Robert Gurney