The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
When the weather's good, there's no better place to be than the British countryside.
I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
I don't think estates are grim places.
There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.