Islington London Borough

Famous quotes containing the words islington and/or london:

    “There was a youthe, and a well-loved youthe,
    And he was a squires son:
    He loved the bayliffes daughter deare,
    That lived in Islington.”
    —Unknown. The Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (l. 1–4)

    “One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)