High Street Kensington

High Street Kensington may refer to:

  • Kensington High Street, a popular shopping street in London
  • High Street Kensington, a Tube station on the Circle and District Lines.

Famous quotes containing the words high, street and/or kensington:

    “A certain degree of miserey [sic] seems inseparable from a high degree of populousness.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “[I]t forged ahead to become a full-fledged metropolis, with 143 faro games, 30 saloons, 4 banks, 27 produce stores, 3 express offices—and an arena for bull-and-bear fights, which, described by Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune, is said to have given Wall Street its best-known phrases.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
    She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
    And she is dying piecemeal
    of a sort of emotional anemia.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)