Edinburgh Quotes
Collection of 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
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.
— Shahrukh Khan
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
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
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
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
Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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
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
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
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.
— Prince Philip
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
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
