There’s nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Vivienne Westwood (b.1941)

If you’re curious, London’s an amazing place.

David Bailey (b.1938)

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that’s posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can’t take it any more is different.

Damien Hirst (b.1965)

On 4th March 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.

Henry Bessemer (1813-1898)

My cousin’s gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock.

Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004)