Toronto

Sourced

• Houses of ill-fame in Toronto? Certainly not. The whole city is an immense house of ill fame.
  • C. S. Clark, Of Toronto the Good (1898)

• Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
  • Stephen Leacock, My Discovery of the West (1937)

• Last night I Had a dream about Toronto. I was on my bicycle, cruising about in front of the old house. And, as usual in my dreams, I was a little girl again. A little girl in Toronto, with long golden curls.
  • Mary Pickford, interview in the Toronto Telegram (1968-06-22)

• Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.
  • Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1970)

• Parish's observant father had once commented to her that Toronto was a city of straight streets and square corners built by Scottish bankers to make money - not to look at the beautiful lake or the wonderful valleys and forests. He was mostly right, but Bay was a rare exception to the city's linear grid.
  • Robert Rotenberg, Old City Hall (2009)

Unsourced

• You're going to have a great town here if you ever get it finished.
  • Bob Hope

• No one should ever visit Toronto for the first time.
  • Allan A. Lamport

• Toronto is the city of the future-and always will be.
  • Alan Lamport

• Toronto is just like New York but without all the stuff.
  • Steve Martin