london, n.Definitions

London is a place to plunder.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

London is a great gloomy city, webbed and meshed, as it were, by the spinnings of a huge poisonous spider.

London is a man, paris a woman, and new york a well-adjusted transsexual.

London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of dickens.

London is, along with the South Sea, one of the rare places in the world where men can most effectively disappear.

London is a huge immeasurable spirit of a thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke dust, palaces, parliaments. Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

London is a place full of fog, where bright ideas are always welcome, provided they come in under quota and fill out the proper form.