Mayfair Quotes:

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, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Doors, Soho, London, Mayfair, Metropolis

Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

topic: Spiritual, Yoga, Fake, Mayfair, Fifth Avenue

No words for the passion. No words for the need.No words for the sheer epiphany of the moment.And so, on an otherwise unremarkable Friday afternoon, in the heart of Mayfair, in a quiet drawing room on Mount Street, Colin Bridgerton kissed Penelope Featherington.And it was glorious.

- Julia Quinn

topic: Friday, Passion, Heart, Mayfair, Friday Afternoon

As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Children, Boys, Yellow, Gazelles, Mayfair

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

- Norman Foster

topic: Distance, Space, Generosity, Mayfair, Notting Hill

Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

- Rachel Johnson

topic: Mean, Bored, Half, Mayfair, Salons

My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.

- Julian Clary

topic: Sexy, Boys, Shrines, Mayfair, Dressers