Oxford Street Quotes:

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.

- Thomas de Quincey

topic: Children, Oxford, Tears, Oxford Street, Stepmothers

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

- Charlie Brooker

topic: Skills, Oxford, People, Misanthrope, Misanthropy

My first paid job was delivering newspapers. The first paid acting job I got was dressing up as Edam cheese and handing out leaflets on London's Oxford Street. I got pushed over by these little herberts and given a good shoe-in.

- Jason Flemyng

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Jobs, Oxford, Dressing Up, Delivering, Oxford Street

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

- Sadiq Khan

topic: Squares, Oxford, Tree, Oxford Street

I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.

- David Thewlis

source: David Thewlis (2011). “The Late Hector Kipling”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

topic: Country, Rain, Cities, Oxford Street, Freezing

New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area and particularly the customers. Great progress is being made to improve Oxford Street and make it a great destination.

- Philip Green

topic: Oxford, Progress, Needs, Oxford Street, West End