Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the Government that heislikethetowntart who has finally married themayor.

-Baxter, Sir Beverley (Arthur)
  Remark attributed to Baxter in Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967), entry for12  Jun.

   A good lord mayor of Birmingham in a lean year.

-Lloyd George (of Dwyfor), David, 1st Earl
Of Neville Chamberlain. Quotedin  A  JP  Taylor From theBoer War to the Cold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe (1995), p.363

The people die so, that now it seems theyare fain to carry the dead to be buried by daylight, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my Lord Mayor commands people to be within at 9 at night, all (as they say) that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Diary entry,12 Aug.

Why should it take three times longer to elect a Mayor for London as it does to set up an entire Scottish Parliament?

-Waterhouse, Keith Spencer
  In the Observer,'They SaidWhat†?', 24 Oct.