Don’t you just hate it when you’ve got the perfect photo for Instagram but no idea what to write for the caption? You’ve snapped the shot and edited it to perfection, only to sit there with writer’s block, unable to post. If that sounds a little too familiar, I’m here to save the day. I’ve collected 130 of the very best London Instagram captions, so you’ll never feel stuck again! And, as someone who lived in London for years, I’ve got all the local know-how to help you pick the wittiest captions out there.
Whether you like to keep it short and sweet, are a sucker for quotes, or consider yourself the queen of puns – you’ll find something for you on this list.
Because what trip to London is complete without an Instagram post (or two or three…)?
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London Puns for Instagram Captions
If puns are your bag, you’ll love this list of London puns for Instagram. Enjoy!
I can’t be Thamed
Fifty Shades of Earl Grey
This little piggy went to Borough Market
Having the Thames of my life
London calling
Let’s cross that London Bridge when we get to it
Soho in love with this city
Chel-see you later London
The Thames is too mainstream for me
I love you a Dals-ton
I hack-need to get back to London
I am Lon-done
The perfect west-end to the perfect trip
Having the best Thames in London
Euston, we have a problem
Short London Instagram Captions
Prefer to keep it short but sweet? These short London Instagram captions pack a punch without the lengthy read.
Mind the gap
London is always a good idea
Money can’t buy you happiness but it can buy you a ticket to London
Studying abroad at Hogwarts
He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered – J.K. Rowling
From London with love
London is calling, so I must go
All you need is love (and a trip to London)
Keep calm and go to London
It’s London baby!
If you need me, I’ll be on the Piccadilly line
Talk British to me
London, you have my heart
When in doubt, go to London
London is my therapy
A bad day in London is better than a good day anywhere else
More Short London Instagram Captions
London Fundon!
London is a roost for every bird
London on a sunny day is my idea of heaven
There’s no place like London
Left my heart in London
Nothing is certain in London but expense – William Shenstone
Live. Love . London.
‘London is a modern Babylon’ – Benjamin Disraeli
I will never tire of London
London is the place for me
‘Italy and London are the only places where I don’t feel to exist on sufferance’ – E. M. Forster
Falling hard for London
London is a world in itself
London Eye Captions
The London Eye is a great photo opportunity with fantastic views of the city. If you’re looking for some London Eye Instagram captions, I’ve got you! Here are the best captions for photos in or from the London Eye.
‘The best thing about the London Eye is the journey. It’s not like the Eiffel Tower, where you get in a dark lift and come out on to a platform at the top. The trip round is as important as the view’ – Julia Barfield
I spy with my London Eye
Eye see you London
Got my London Eye on the prize
You’re the apple of my London Eye
P-eye in the sky
Getting a bird’s eye view
London, Eye am I a big fan
Eye am never leaving London
Eye came, Eye saw, Eye conquered
On top of the world
If you need me, I’ll be at the top of the London eye
Eye can see clearly now
Big Ben Captions
Big Ben is an iconic part of the London skyline and looks great on any Instagram feed. These short, humorous Big Ben Instagram captions work perfectly.
Where have you Ben all my life?
‘Look, a clock. We don’t have that in America’ – Ron Swanson
Feeling ticked off
On a big ben-der
I’m big ben-t on getting back to London
Friends with big ben-efits
Thought it was about time we saw Big Ben
Whoops, I did it Big Ben
This guy is a big (ben) deal
Buckingham Palace Captions
Snapped some photos of the royal residence? Share for your princess moment on online with these Buckingham Palace Instagram captions.
Visiting the Queen
Living like the royals
Hey MTV, welcome to my crib
Home is where the palace is
Just picking up my crown
Hope the Queen doesn’t see me – I’m having a bad heir day!
‘I have class and you don’t’ – The Parent Trap
Feeling like a Queen in London
London Quotes for Instagram Captions
Struggling to describe the fantastic city of London in your own words? Why not borrow someone else’s? Here are London quotes for Instagram captions from writers and famous figures throughout the ages. I couldn’t have put it better myself…
‘I have admired the romantic elegance of the Place de la Concorde in Paris, have felt the mystic message from a thousand glittering windows at sunset in New York, but to me the view of the London Thames from our hotel window transcends them all for utilitarian grandeur – something deeply human’ – Charlie Chaplain
‘The Thames is liquid history’ – John Burns
‘I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me’ – Charlotte Bronte
‘One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you’ – Sebastian Faulks
‘The best bribe which London offers today to the imagination is that in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
‘There’s nowhere like London. Nothing at all, anywhere’ – Vivienne Westwood
‘New York has a great energy, but London is better’ – Jamie Winstone
‘London is a bad habit one hates to lose’ – William Sansom
‘I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people’ – James Boswell
‘When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford’ – Samuel Johnson
‘The parks be the lungs of London’ – Charles Dickens
More London Quotes
‘The man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world’ – Oscar Wilde
‘London is a glorious mess’ – James Geary
‘I travel continuously, and I see many cities, but there is nowhere like London’ – Norman Foster
‘I have been walking about London for the last 30 years, and I find something fresh in it every day’ – Walter Besant
‘It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent’ – Henry James
‘By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show’ – Samuel Johnson
It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London’ – Peter Ackroyd
‘To walk alone in London is the greatest rest’ – Virginia Woolf
‘The higher the buildings, the lower the morals’ – Noel Coward
‘Take a perfect day, add six hours of rain and fog, and you have instant London’
‘And marbled clouds go scudding by. The many-steepled London sky’ – John Betjeman
‘One of the things I most liked about the city – apart from all the obvious attractions… was that so few people ever asked you personal questions’ – Julia Gregson
‘I think London is sexy because it’s so full of eccentrics’ – Rachel Weisz
‘London is a world by itself. We daily discover in it more new countries, and surprising singularities, than in all the universe besides’ – Thomas Brown
‘The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?’ – Virginia Woolf
‘If you’re curious, London’s an amazing place’ – David Bailey
‘The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner’ – Natalie Massenet
London is lovable in its sprawling confusion’ – Joseph Fort Newton
‘The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed’ – King George VI
‘Fragmentarily the City is nothing, but collectively it is gigantic’ – Charlotte Riddell
‘Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be’ – Oscar Wilde
‘London is like a cold dark dream sometimes’ – Jean Rhys
‘Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still’ – Thomas Moore
‘London tho art the flower of cities all!’ – William Dunbar
‘All my life, I’ve wanted to see London. I wanted to see London the way old people want to see the home before they die’ – Helene Hanff
London Lyrics for Instagram Captions
Referencing pop culture in your Instagram captions is a great cure for those moments of writer’s block. Here are some of the best London lyrics for Instagram captions, ranging from Taylor Swift to Ella Fitzgerald.
Show me a grey sky, a rainy cab ride, babe don’t threaten me with a good time – Taylor Swift
You know I love a London boy – Taylor Swift
Waterloo Sunset… I am in Paradise – The Kinks
London is the place for me – Lord Kitchener
An empty bench in Soho Square – Kirsty MacColl
A rainy night in Soho – The Pogues
A foggy day in London town – Ella Fitzgerald
And now I love high tea, stories from uni, and the West End – Taylor Swift
They say home is where the heart is but God, I love the English – Taylor Swift
My London, London Bridge wanna go down like – Fergie
Living the dream like a London Queen – Charli XCX
Take me back to London – Ed Sheeran
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner that I love London town – Hubert Gregg
Literary London Quotes for Instagram Captions
London has shaped literature so many times over the years. Luckily for us that means talented writers have put London into words for us. Why not use one of the literary London quotes for your Instagram caption?
In London, everyone is different, and that means anyone can fit in – Paddington Bear
The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside – Arthur Conan Doyle
I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is – Bram Stoker
Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee, which is a perfect map of the London underground – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Afternoon Tea Quotes for Instagram Captions
Tea is beloved not only in London but throughout the UK. If you’ve treated yourself to an afternoon tea in the city, these afternoon tea quotes work perfectly for Instagram captions!
Spilling the tea on London
‘The British never seem to do anything until they’ve had a cup of tea, by which time they’re late’ – Lauren Bacall
‘Tea is the elixir of life’ – Eisai
Tea is always a good idea
‘Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth’ – Alexander Pushkin
‘You’ll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me’ – Winston Churchill
Time to par-tea in London
‘In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea’ – John Osborne
Having a brew-tiful time
Taking life one scone at a time
Pass the scones
I’m bad to the scone
London is my cup of tea
Sticks and scones may break my bones
Missing tea in London – you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s scone
Life is like a cup of tea. It’s all in how you make it
Everything I brew, I brew for you
You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s scone
London is really tea-rific
London Instagram Captions
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