Edinburgh Quotes: top 62 famous quotes about Edinburgh

Edinburgh Quotes & Sayings

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Dentopedology is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it. I've been practicing it for years. — Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh

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

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

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction — James Hogg

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich. — Shahrukh Khan

My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding. — Caro Ramsay

You look like you're ready for bed! — Prince Philip

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

Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily. — Martin Hopkins

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh. — Jeffery Deaver

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion. — Prince Philip

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

I'm a bit of a Scotophile. I have a house on the Black Isle, so I'm in Scotland quite a lot and think Edinburgh is just the most beautiful city. — Penelope Keith

Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath. — Charles Stross

Edinburgh House. He had heard that in its industrial heyday, Corby had had — Robert Galbraith

She felt something missing in her soul. It wasn't until she landed in Edinburgh that she realized that missing piece was the wild, mystical land. — Donna Grant

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

Do you still throw spears at each filmother? — Prince Philip

Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes. — Alexander McCall Smith

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon. — Martin Hopkins

If you happen to be a person who does not enjoy your own company, a visit to Edinburgh in January will teach you how it's done. — Vivian Swift

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

My accent is ... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English. — Sam Heughan

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life so it happened. — Peter Higgs

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality. — M. J. Hyland

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

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books. — Neil Cross

If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy. — Dexter Fletcher

Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds. — Sara Sheridan

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. — Magnus Magnusson

My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother. — Martin Henderson

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you? — Prince Philip

I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time. — Rory Bremner

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist. — Sara Sheridan

Edinburgh is alive with words. — Sara Sheridan

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too. — Aidan Gillen

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. — Rory Bremner

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries. — Carol Ann Duffy

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

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more. — Sara Sheridan

This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again. — Alexander McCall Smith

There's a lot of your family in tonight. — Prince Philip

A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we're on? — Alexander McCall Smith

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. — Peter Hambleton

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

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

Aren't most of you descended from pirates? — Prince Philip

I love coming back to Edinburgh. It's nice to spend real time here. — Sophie Wu

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

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

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. — Davy Jones

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

If London was an alien city, Edinburgh was another planet — Jess Walter

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

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter. — Bernard Bailyn

They have eating dogs for the anorexic now. — Prince Philip

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

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

You managed not to get eaten then? — Prince Philip

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

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city. — Alexander McCall Smith

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