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Ruins of an abandoned mill in Toulon, Nevada. The abandoned mill buildings in Toulon date from 1892. The main building housed a ball mill used to process tungsten as well as precious metals. The tungsten was processed from scheelite ore from the nearby Ragged Top Mining District. In 1918, the mill was turned in to an arsenic mill that processed ore from near Battle Mountain. The mill was acquired in 1929, but remained idle until 1936, when it was refurbished. The mill played an important role refining tungsten ore from Nevada and California during WWII, including a 1943 addition of a flotation plant.
(55/365) Welly wonders why Candy doesn't fancy joining him to swim a few lengths of our pond, after all she does have her flotation device fitted correctly.
HWWHDT! Thanks to all my wonderful Flickr friends who have commented & sent their good wishes for Candy's recovery. It's 7 days since her operation. She's much better in herself & is managing to potter about the house but the wound is taking it's time to heal properly & she has to wear the collar at all times otherwise she chews the bandages off. She finishes the antibiotics in 3 days so hopefully the wound will be healed & the stitches can come out.
UPDATE: Sadly Candy's cancer returned & we had to have her put to sleep just after Christmas 2015. Peace after pain.
Flotation (von englisch to float – schwimmen) ist ein physikalisch-chemisches Trennverfahren für feinkörnige Feststoffe aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Oberflächenbenetzbarkeit der Partikel. Dabei macht man sich zunutze, dass Gasblasen sich leicht an hydrophobe, d. h. durch Wasser schwer benetzbare Oberflächen anlagern und den Partikeln Auftrieb verleihen, so dass diese schwimmen. Voraussetzung ist, dass das verwendete Gas sich selbst schwer in Wasser löst. Unter diesen Bedingungen sammeln sich an den hydrophoben Partikeloberflächen die ebenfalls hydrophoben Gasblasen.
Quelle: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flotation
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Wrote a short tutorial on how palm trees can be built.
This is by no means my design, or anything new for that matter. But I had to make a tutorial for it for a tree building workshop I held recently, so I figured I might as well post it :)
The design is rather commonplace I think and I have no idea who first came up with it, but when I was going to build one I wasn't sure how people had put the top together. I went with green flotation devices as the attachment piece for the leaves, which I suspect is not how it's usually done, but it works :)
You can find the tutorial here:
fullplatebuilds.com/2018/11/21/palm-tree-tutorial/
Hope you find it useful :)
Conductor Bryce Browning has the North Crossover lined at Spruce Pine for CSX train U247-11 to move from the work track back to the main and Mike Callahan has just given the short train of covered hoppers a gouge of encouragement to shove out as evidenced by the ascending cloud of exhaust rising above town. The sun is starting to sink but once again, U247 finds itself in the heat of the action on a very busy Sunday evening on the Blue Ridge Sub. On its way from Flotation to Minpro, the local was dispatched back into the work track to allow an empty hopper train that was running from the law to leap frog it in an attempt to get a jump on the signal suspension through Green Mountain. All for naught, however, as both U247 and the empty hopper would have to yield to southbound M653 at Kona, along with 3 other northbounds at Toe River, Sevier, and Marion.
Those with an eye for history will note that the 8128 began its life on the Clinchfield in August of 1980. Being close to her 44th birthday, she's still looking pretty good, earning her keep making money for CSX, and is right at home plying the rails of the Old Clinchfield South End.
The Zinc Corporation was formed in 1905 to treat zinc-rich ‘tailings’, the waste product of ore, purchased from other mines. In 1911, The Zinc Corporation acquired the South Blocks Co. and began underground mining at the southern end of the line of lode. The flotation mineral extraction process was pioneered at the site.
Ore was treated here before shipment as a concentrate to Port Pirie, on the South Australian coast, for smelting.
The Zinc Corporation acquired the leases of the Broken Hill South Blocks Company and further expanded the plant and operations. In the 1930s the Zinc Corporation began to build a new group of plant buildings as they shifted their operations to Freeman’s shaft and entered into a working agreement with New Broken Hill Consolidated Limited to run their operations jointly. The construction of the steel headframe over the Main Shaft commenced in 1936 as part of a major redevelopment of the Zinc Mine. Main Shaft had an ore hauling capacity of 0.9 million tonnes per year.
Adjacent to the shaft is a circular crushing house, concentration mill and offices. These were erected in 1939 and closed in 1988 when operations were transferred to the NBHC Mine by Pasminco.
Source: Visit Broken Hill (www.visitbrokenhill.com/Discover/Silver-Trail/89.-Zinc-Ov...), Perilya, & Research Gate.
An Oceanside lifeguard walks along the beach carrying his rescue tube and flppers. The rescue tube is an essential piece of equipment carried by lifeguards as a flotation device used to support the victim's and rescuer's weight during a rescue.
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Guillaume Daniel (G.D.) Delprat, after whom this shaft was named, was a Dutch-Australian metallurgist and mining engineer. An astute businessman, Delprat was Broken Hill Proprietry Limited’s ( BHP) General Manager from 1899 to 1921. He played an important part in the perfecting of a technique that came to be known as the (C.V.) Potter-Delprat flotation process; it revolutionized sulphide ore treatment and brought enormous profits from the metal content of millions of tons (tonnes) of formerly useless tailings.and a developer of the flotation process, which entails separating valuable minerals from gangue (mined rock that is not ore) with water.
The Delprat shaft was sunk in 1900. In 1952, the original wooden headframe was replaced by the present steel structure, and an electric winder replaced a steam engine. The early steam engines used to power mining machinery in the early twentieth century were powered by boilers fuelled by local firewood. Timber was also cut for use in buildings and headframes.
The shaft was closed to mining by the time MMM (Mining for Metal and Minerals) ceased operations in August 1976. It became a tourist mine in 1977, and its closure in 2007 was due to nearby remnant mining operations by CBH Resources.
Source: Visit Broken Hill (www.visitbrokenhill.com/Trails/Silver-Trail/11.-Delprat-S...)
The Block 10 mine, one of the original BHP leases, was floated as the BHP Block 10 Co. Ltd in 1888. A concentration mill was erected at the mine in the 1890s to treat sulphide ore. Underground subsidence seriously affected the mill and, as a result, a new mill was erected on this hill in 1903, about 600 metres from the mine.
An aerial ropeway, the first at Broken Hill, was completed in 1904. This transported broken ore from the mine to a large storage bin above the mill. The mill cost £50 000 and could treat 3500 tons of ore per week.
The mine produced 2.5 million tons of ore and paid £1.5 million in dividends up to 1923 when it and the mill closed and were purchased by BHP. The mine was reworked by Broken Hill South Ltd between 1946 and 1960. Much of the mine site is now covered by overburden dumps from modern open-cut operations.
The concrete foundations on site are the remnants of the Block 10 concentration mill erected in 1903. The mill, designed by Captain John Warren and containing many of his inventions, was the first all electric mill in Broken Hill.
The aerial ropeway delivered broken ore from the mine to a storage bin above the mill. Broken ore was fed to crushing rolls and then passed to cylindrical trommels and hydraulic classifiers for sizing. Subsequent treatment consisted of wet concentration by jigs, Wilfley tables and vanners. These relied on specific gravity to separate the heavier lead and silver minerals from the zinc minerals. The resultant concentrate contained about two-thirds of the lead and one-half of the silver in the original ore, but very little zinc.
Flotation units were added to the mill in 1910 to produce a zinc concentrate from the tailings. Combined gravity-flotation concentration mills were standard at Broken Hill until after 1930 when the first all-flotation plants were installed.
Source: City Of Broken Hill.
On the main intersection in Gold Hill is the Red Store. This is the place you want to investigate for unique pottery art and some sort of token and remembrance of your trek to Gold Hill. The marketing opportunities up here are few. This store encompasses several shots in the Gold Hill Group. This is one of my RAW layer edits and I captured the sky primarily, knowing I could dig the building from the depths of the RAW. Certainly, the sky is becoming overcast and more is coming from the looks of it. I took more shots of the store. The construction just beyond was probably a well.
I captured this, one of the most photographed buildings at Gold Hill. It is probably not as old as the log structures and shacks but they made an attempt with a coat of paint. I suppose that you can inquire about any of the histories of the buildings from any of the local on the streets; I did. I still want to get over to Gold Hill Switzerland Trail RR Station to see if any thing is left but that might require a metal detector.
I was already running out of time and getting sprinkles on my third recent try. A "lode" of opportunities exist up and down Main but I have limited time until the next round of rain. The historical designation is responsible for most of the ambiance. There is a mix of old log and milled lumber structure construction, and lumber milled to look like logs. That was a fad in the past. Often lumber mills arrived at the booming mining camps early. That and the mine timbers accounted for the lack of timber standing in the forests in photographs from early days.
Gold Hill has lasted for decades through the original gold boom, the second gold boom, the silver boom and its 1893 demonetization and finally the return to reliance on gold and tungsten mining and processing. After the flotation table was invented Colorado experienced yet another rush; this time to the ore dumps to process ores that my have been previously been crudely processed. They found more of the rarer metals. It has never completely died and is not accurately, a ghost town. It's history of transportation was a bit tortured considering one route was Lickskillet. I assume most transportation was to and from the Gold Hill Railway Station when the Switzerland Trail rails were laid west on its way to Ward. The steep sides of the canyon originally meant the road up from Boulder had to ascent the canyon. Old Gold Hill still lives on in this century-old mining camp. The narrow gauge route was never built from old Hill Station (see the map). It continued to cling to the foothills above Boulder.
"In the event of a water landing, I have been designed to serve as a flotation device."
Bought my partner a 1/6 scale Data for Christmas and I keep forgetting to grab some pics of him.
Is the round cover on the trunk (boot) lid the mounting location for the outboard motor?
Regardless, this was a very clean-looking, barnacle-free land yacht. Or is it a barge? It could pass as either, in my most humble of opinions.
Hmmm. I have never seen when these vessels are equipped with flotation devices. Anyone know?
2018: Tour d'Elegance
As many of you have pointed out, I have tortured and abused Peeps in the most vile ways. Let it be said, I did so with the purest of intents, in the name of science, and let us be done with the incriminations. I have tried my best to study these squishy little Easter creatures to find out what makes them so appealing. They are cute. They have longevity, with the power to reappear year, after year, after bloody year. They are slowly taking on every colour in a sixty-four box of Crayola crayons, which as a side note are quite edible, even though one should not eat their crayons. If you find yourself shipwrecked at sea, enough of them tied together could be used as a flotation device, until you are rescued or eaten by a shark; the shark having the good sense to eat only what is edible, leaving the peeps raft behind. As one last experiment, I prepared a salad and before I could finish off my greens, I doused it with my favourite ranch dressing......still, it is totally inedible. Sigh.....
Disclaimer: No Peeps were harmed in the taking of these images. Well....except for the one I hacked apart with the knife AND the one I squished with a brick AND maybe this one drowned by ranch dressing, BUT no others.....trust me.....
Happy Easter, Everyone :-))
I didn't see an safety flotation devices or barnacles. I doubt this has been on a bay cruise recently.
2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance: 1958 Continental Mark III Convertible
A few crew for my defender class boat. They're sporting the new lego PFD's (personnel flotation device). These seem to be the most realistic option for what the USCG actually use.
Ski racing athletes wear protective headgear and flotation devices, plus they wear neck braces and other protective survival gear to soften the blow of becoming a human crash-test dummy when falling at such high speeds, according to their official web site. I was told that the race where I shot this picture was going to last an hour on the large oval race course set up in commencement bay, Tacoma/Point Ruston, Washington. The boats and athletes came from all over the world, I was told. The pictured boat seemed to be one of the leaders and was lapping the skier in the picture.
The LF-76 was designed by VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden in the early seventies to meet a requirement by the military for a long-range freighter capable of STOL on unprepared surfaces. The combination of a high-lift wing, powerful engines, and high-flotation landing gear with 20 wheels give the LF-76 exceptional capabilities in the field (as in: actual fields). Following earlier traditions, the glazed nose for the navigator provides excellent view for landings, and a gunner position was also incorporated into the tail, fitted with two 23mm cannons.
A double-decked 250-passenger airliner was on the drawing board, but this was scrapped before any prototype was built. Other variants were built for the military, which include an aerial tanker capable of refuelling three planes at once, the TF-78, and an AEW&C version known as the FWF-76.
Civilian interest was high, as the freighter provides a way to transport ramp-delivered cargo, especially outsized or heavy items that don’t fit in more traditional freighters, and it can do so to remote areas. A significant number is in service with the national airline of the Dessauer Demokratische Republik, Interflug, although these can all be pressed into military service when needed due to the company’s status of being government owned. The largest fleet is operated by Aeroblyat, the well-known international Slavic airline.
A micro version of the Ilyushin Il-76, Il-78, and the Beriev A-50, with some creative liberties taken due to scale limitations.
Description Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott sit with their spacecraft hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery ship, the USS Leonard F. Mason after the successful, but early, completion of their Gemini VIII mission. They are assisted by USAF Pararescuemen Eldrige M. Neal, Larry D. Huyett, and Glenn M. Moore. The overhead view shows the Gemini 8 spacecraft with the yellow flotation collar attached to stabilize the spacecraft in choppy seas. The green marker dye is highly visible from the air and is used as a locating aid.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S66-18602
Date: March 16, 1966
During an evening paddle. The dark shadows are trees on the shoreline of Hoople Island, Long Sault, Ontario.
The monument is the work of the artist Tryge Barstad.
It consists of a group of pillars with water running down to symbolise a waterfall.
Over this, two floaters try to loosen the logs with the help of float hooks. One of the guys pushes, the other pulls. The statue is located in a small pool.
The idea of setting up a monument in Skien was launched in the early 1990s. In 1991, the Skiensvassdragets Fellesfløtningsforening received an application for money for the project from Skien municipality, which originally wanted to place the monument by the then, new walking and cycling path over the flotation organization's site. In the same year, the Skiensvassdragets Fellesfløtningsforening decided to contribute NOK 50,000 to the project. The goal was for the monument to be completed by the 100th anniversary of the Bandak-Norsjø canal in 1992. The monument was erected on the northern part of Smieøya.
In the Skiens watercourse, timber has been floated for a thousand years. Until 2005, timber was still floated in the Skiens watercourse with the Union paper factory in Skien as the recipient. In 2006, the paper mill was also closed down.
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Picture Window
Flotation Mill
Monitor Belmont Mining Company
Belmont Ghost Town
Nevada
July 2021
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This reminds me of H. R. Giger's work in Alien.
This is in the mill at the mine where I work in NW Alaska.
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This is my second try at a levitation manipulation. My friend Andrew, as pictured in my previous posting, was willing to attempt this with me. I don't think I'm completely satisfied with the result, but I guess it could be from just staring at it too long and picking out little things that bugged me. My title is from a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I thought it fit well as I wanted a sense of curiousity, but an atmosphere of fear and mystery at the same time. Any constructive criticisim would be helpful! Hope you enjoy!
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Des gilets de sauvetage usagés recouvrent les remparts de la Batterie royale à l’instar d’une enceinte doublement protégée ou d’une barricade militaire fortifiée. Les équipements de flottaison ont servi à des milliers de réfugiés syriens en fuite vers l’Europe avant d’être récupérés en 2016 par Ai Weiwei sur l’île grecque de Lesbos. Agglomérés pour dresser une frontière colorée, ces vestiges de la crise migratoire nous confrontent aux périples de ceux qui tentent désespérément d’échapper aux violences de la guerre.
Valorisation du patrimoine : L’installation résonne avec l’histoire locale puisqu’elle fait écho aux racines migratoires de la Nouvelle-France. La Batterie royale est un ouvrage de défense militaire construit par les Français en 1691 pour contrecarrer les tentatives d’invasion anglaises. En évoquant les délimitations frontalières qui régissent toujours la mobilité humaine, la structure architecturale renforce le propos de l’œuvre qui la recouvre.
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Used life jackets cover the walls of Old Quebec’s Royal Battery, suggesting protective padding or a fortified military barricade. But these personal flotation devices are the very ones used by thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe. The life jackets were recovered by Ai Weiwei in 2016 on the Greek island of Lesbos. They form a colourful border, an artifact of the migrant crisis confronting us with the journeys of those ready to do whatever it takes to escape the violence of war.
Heritage note: The installation’s theme evokes local history by echoing the migratory past of New France. The Royal Battery is a military defense structure built by the French in 1691 to thwart English invasions. As a symbol of the borders that still govern human mobility today, the architectural structure intensifies the implication of the work that covers it.
Source: passagesinsolites.com/en/oeuvres/ai-weiwei-beijing-chine-...
The caribou is a specialist that is well adapted to cooler climates with hollow-hair fur that covers almost all of its body including its nose, and provides insulation in winter and flotation for swimming.[4] Caribou can reach a speed of 60–80 km/h (37–50 mph).[1] Young caribou can already outrun an Olympic sprinter when only a day old.[16] The caribou's favourite winter food is fruticose deer lichen. Seventy percent of the diet of woodland caribou consists of arboreal lichen which take hundreds of years to grow and are therefore only found in mature forests. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribou
London inspires many to write compelling thoughts and anecdotes just as the grand city on the Thames inspires me to photograph her night after night. Some words are one-off's while others are part of timeless pieces of literature. I've combined famous London quotes with my own night images of London for the ultimate list of London quotes. Feel free to add your suggestions in the comment section below.
London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of today.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
-Samuel Johnson
Go where we may rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
- Thomas Moore, "Rhymes on the Road", The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore
Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London.
- Anonymous
London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.
- Robert Smythe Hichens, The Woman with the Fan
London is the clearing-house of the world.
- Joseph Chamberlain, speech at Guildhall, London, Jan. 19, 1904
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner that I love London so.
There's nowhere else like London, nothing at all. Anywhere.
I think London is sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee house for the voice of a kingdom.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
If London is a watercolour, New York is an oil painting.
London is a splendid place to live for those who can get out of it.
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
A person who is tired of London isn't necessarily tired of life. It might be that he just can't find a parking place.
I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear - the City of London and the South Seas.
Oh, I love London society. It is composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics, just what a society should be.
And there is London!--England's heart and soul.
By the proud flowing of her famous Thames,
She circulates through countless lands and isles
Her greatness; gloriously she rules,
At once the awe and sceptre of the world.
- Robert Montgomery
I love thee, London! for thy many men,
And for thy mighty deeds and scenes of glory.
- Philip James Bailey
London is a city that has reinvented itself upon the remains of the past.
- Leo Hollis, London Rising: The Men Who Made Modern London
London isn't a stodgy place. Trend-setting London is to the United Kingdom what New York City is to the United States: the spot where everything happens first (or ultimately ends up).
- Donald Olson, England For Dummies
London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.
- Peter Ackroyd, London: The Biography
London is a cluster of communities, great and small, famous and unsung; a city of contrasts, a congregation of diversity.
- Roy Porter, London: A Social History
The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.
- Arthur Symons, Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands
London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.
- George Gissing, New Grub Street
London is a bad habit one hates to lose.
- Anonymous
Spare London, for London, is like the city that thou lovedst.
- Thomas Nash, Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem
London is a roost for every bird.
- Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair
And London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leave
To pigeon-haunted classic towers,
And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky
- John Betjeman, "Christmas"
London is like a smoky pearl set in a circle of emeralds.
- William Henry Rideing, In the Land of Lorna Doone
London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.
- Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Taken at the Flood
London is a splendid place to live in for those who can get out of it.
- George John Gordon Bruce, The Observer, Oct. 1, 1944
London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.
- Louise Closser Hale, We Discover New England
The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner? - Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air – or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
- Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler
If the parks are "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is -- a periodical breaking out, we suppose -- a sort of spring rash.
- Charles Dickens, Greenwich Fair
You are now
In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Yet in its depth what treasures!
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, letter to Maria Gisborne, 1820
I journeyed to London, to the time kept City,
Where the River flows, with foreign flotations.
There I was told: we have too many churches,
And too few chop-houses.
- T. S. Eliot, The Rock
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
There's a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
And the vermin of the world
Inhabit it ...
And it goes by the name of London.
- Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member.
- Alec Waugh, The Sugar Islands
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
- Jane Austen, Emma
London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
- China Mieville, Kraken
London opens to you like a novel itself... It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.
- Anna Quindlen, Imagined London
London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, Jasper of jocundity.
- William Dunbar
I don’t know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
- Noël Coward
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
- Bette Midler, attributed, The Unofficial Guide to London
London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go through immigration waving any kind of passport, hop on the tube and by the time the train's pulled into Piccadilly Circus they've become a Londoner.
- Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho
One of the things she most liked about the city -apart from all its obvious attractions, the theatre, the galleries, the exhilarating walks by the river- was that so few people ever asked you personal questions.
- Julia Gregson
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, / Dirty and dusty, but as wide as eye / Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping / In sight, then lost amidst the forestry / Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping / On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; / A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown / On a fool’s head – and there is London Town.
- Lord Byron
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
- Oscar Wilde
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.
- Jane Austen
In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.
- John Osborne
This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
- William Butler Yeats
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
- Stephen Fry
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It’s the second biggest cause of death amongst the English in general. Sheer boredom.
- Alexander McCall Smith
If London is a watercolour, New York is an oil painting.
- Peter Shaffer
Nothing is certain in London but expense.
- William Shenstone
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look. -
Sir Seymour Hicks
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets, and forever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?
- Charlotte Brontë
There’s a hole in the world / Like a great black pit / And the vermin of the world / Inhabit it / And it goes by the name of London.
- Stephen Sondheim in Sweeney Todd
I’m leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it’s not raining.
- Groucho Marx
London, London, London town / You can toughen up or get thrown around.
- Kano
I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It’s one of the curses of London.
- Ambrose Bierce
It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.
- George VI
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,
That I love London so;
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,
That I think of her wherever I go.
I get a funny feeling inside of me,
Just walking up and down;
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner,
That I love London town.
- Hubert Gregg, "Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner"
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
- George Bernard Shaw
In London everyone is different and that means anyone can fit in.
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
I came to London. It had become the centre of my world and I was lost.
One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
- Sebastian Saulks, Engleby
There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.
- Herman Melville
The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are now / In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow / At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore / Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more / Yet in its depth what treasures!
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
London is a modern Babylon.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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