Edinburgh Quotes

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

The bastards murdered half my family.

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly.

It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake.

According to the Captain of The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, striking your opponent or caddie at St Andrews, Hoylake or Westward Ho! meant that you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

It's okay to be confused. Confusion is the route to all the clarity in the world.

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

Live now, live today - don't be bound by rules, live your own dream.

You managed not to get eaten then?

You look like you're ready for bed!

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?

Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

There's a lot of your family in tonight.

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

I want to hang out in Edinburgh with my friends and eat fish and chips wrapped in newspaper.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.