The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their “Hub,” as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustle and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in […]
Cities - City Quotes
There are dragons buried beneath our cities, primordial energies greater than the power of our bombs.
Broadway is a main artery of New York life – the hardened artery.
New York, the hussy, was taken in sin again!
At nine in the morning, the aforementioned “Twentieth Century Limited” arrived in Chicago. For a while before that, however, one passes through parts of the city so hideous that one wonders how living creatures can vegetate there. The never-ending drizzle, armed with the entire American array of cars, lights, advertisements, life, and traffic, fought a […]
Metropolis, n. A stronghold of provincialism.
Cities are full of people with whom… a certain degree of contact is useful; but you do not want them in your hair. And they do not want you in theirs either.
Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied, “Why, my Lord, I’ll tell you what is become of it; it is gone into the city to look for a fortune.”
A transition from an author’s book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it […]
Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city “half as old as Time!”
