Fleet Street Quotes:

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

topic: Names, Black, Pits, Londoners, Sweeney Todd

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Wicked, Relief, Would Be, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

- Stephen Sondheim

topic: Roots, Miracle, Bottles, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

- Marion Jones

topic: Get Involved, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney, Fleet Street

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

- Charles Lamb

source: Letter to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 (quoting from 'The Londoner', no. 1), in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57

topic: Men, Recipes, Dull, Fleet Street

My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

- Lionel Barber

topic: Father, Years, Careers, Fleet Street, Leeds

The killing of everyone was the easy part, the most difficult part was lathering them up and shaving them, that's the part that freaked me out the most in [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ].

- Johnny Depp

topic: Shaving, Demon, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney, Barbers

I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton].

- Johnny Depp

topic: Believe, Men, Degrees, Sweeney Todd, Sweeney

In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleetThey barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!

- Eleanor Farjeon

source: "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Fleet Street)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

topic: Feet, People, Nimble, Fleet Street

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

- Eric Gill

source: Eric Gill, D. Liam O'Huallachain, John Sharpe (2008). “Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity”, Ihs Press

topic: Real, Bridges, Iron, Fleet Street

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

- William Butler Yeats

source: William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Ambition, Lakes, Fleet Street, Shop Windows

Gerry?' Laurel had to strain to hear thought the noise on the other end of the line. 'Gerry? Where are you?' 'London. A phone booth on Fleet Street.' 'The city still has working phone booths?' 'It would appear so. Unless this is the Tardis, in which case I'm in serious trouble.

- Kate Morton

topic: Phones, Cities, London, Strain, Phone Booth

Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story. The U.K.'s rough-and-tumble Fleet Street remains something of a throwback to that era, as demonstrated by the recent phone-hacking scandal - which led to the demise of yet another century-old paper, the 'News of the World.'

- Nathan Myhrvold

topic: Phones, Citizens, News, Throwback, Citizen Kane

Photographers don't need to be aggressive. Some are. Henry Benson is aggressive - but then he's from Fleet Street. If you can talk to people, you don't need to push people around.

- Alfred Eisenstaedt

topic: Fleet Street