18th century Quote by Lynne Truss

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

— Katie Price

I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

— Cate Blanchett

Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on…

— Martin Parr

When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed…

— Julie Burchill

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's…

— Peter James

Brighton is such a good place to bring up kids.

— Zoe Ball

It must be said that Brighton, unlike London, makes driving seem very appealing. Instead of glowering faces and angry horns on all sides, we…

— Julie Burchill

Brighton is a beautiful seaside city, but it's got a dark underbelly.

— Peter James

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

— Julie Burchill

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling…

— Brian Eno

“Brighton Beach does not look, smell, or sound like Russia. It's a parody of Russia at best, something as different from the real thing…

— Lara Vapnyar

My wife is from Brighton so I got a bit of stick for going to Palace even though in my first three-and-a-half years at…

— Glenn Murray