City Quotes

The city... what a complex work of art. Its colors are people, its lines are streets, and its shimmering light is the intertwined souls of its inhabitants. I see it every day from a small cafe window; every passing face carries a story, and every corner tells a secret. Its hustle is the noise of life's orchestra, and its silence, moments of deep contemplation.

Reflect on these words—these profound quotes—that reveal the secrets of urban life and explore the soul of great metropolises.

Quote by Oscar Wilde: Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there....
Quote by Charles Dickens: It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and...
Quote by Charles Dickens: There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. T...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London....
Quote by Ernest Hemingway: But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there....
Quote by Victor Hugo: To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time,...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. ...
Quote by Victor Hugo: Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome...
Quote by Saint Augustine: Every city is a living body....
Quote by Walter Winchell: Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery....
Quote by Victor Hugo: The sewer is the conscience of the city....
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of ...
Quote by Walt Whitman: Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-h...
Quote by Charles Dickens: The town was glad with morning light; places that had shown ugly and distrustful all night long, now...
Quote by Bob Marley: Life must be somewhere to befound, instead of  #‎ ConcreteJungle  ....
Quote by Audrey Hepburn: And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is ex...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed ...
Quote by Virginia Woolf: . . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ...
Quote by Walt Whitman: Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!...
Quote by Walt Whitman: A great city is that which has the greatest men and women....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or wheth...
Quote by Walt Whitman: More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tide...
Quote by Charles Dickens: The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness t...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the ...
Quote by Aristotle: A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed....
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: [Chicago]: This vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, mace-smelling boneyard of a city: an eleg...
Quote by Walt Whitman: Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architectur...
Quote by Albert Camus: As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...
Quote by Hunter S. Thompson: A little bit of this town goes a very long way....
Quote by Aristotle: A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: St. Paul'sLoomed like a bubble o'er the town....