Series: In Quotations

I have struck a city- a real city - and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages, so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city,' home to the first skyscraper, gateway to the Great Lakes, birthplace of modern...

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford, said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then, the capital has been characterised variously as a 'riddle', a 'cesspool', and a 'modern Babylon'. Both Londoners and visitors alike have continued to share their candid views of this great city...

Over the last three-and-a-half centuries, this glamorous, twenty-four-hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists, and playwrights. Many of them have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose, or the ultimate wisecrack. New York in Quotations offers a vibrant collection of these perspectives. "Make your mark in New York and you are a made man," wrote Mark...

This compact gift book is packed full of witty, scandalous, and entertaining quotations about this famous city, from the Middle Ages to the current decade. Oxford is one of the world's great cities, a source of inspiration to generations of poets, novelists, journalists, and commentators who have visited or called it home. Be it praise or colourful invective, everyone, it...

Describing the capital variously as a city of lovers, gastronomy, fashion and filth, myriad quotations—sometimes poetic, sometimes humorous and always fizzing with insight—are collected here. Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalised, and most of all, captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens, it is the 'most extraordinary place in the world'; for Hazlitt, 'a beast of...