Life Quote by Mary Quant

My social life's moved up a few notches since moving back to London from Surrey because I'm near friends and family again and I'm…

— Laila Rouass

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little…

— Ed Westwick

When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place,…

— Toby Kebbell

I love the idea of the Swinging Sixties in London.

— Debra Stephenson

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because…

— Diana Quick

My time in London was an alright part of my career. There were some good moments and there were some not particularly nice ones.

— Andrey Arshavin

I loved living in London in my 20s and 30s, but after a while, you kind of go, 'Right, is this it? Is this…

— Cillian Murphy

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

— Catherine Helen Spence

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class…

— Mark Haddon

I grew up abroad, and when I first passed through London in the 1970s, it seemed a drab and provincial place.

— John Lanchester

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different,…

— Penelope Lively

In Britain, there's kids who grew up in London and then kids who didn't. You become quite street wise. It's such a big city,…

— Ben Lloyd-Hughes