Edinburgh Quotes · Page 3

What I loved about Edinburgh was being able to walk to work through a beautiful place.

— Roger Allam

“I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.”

— Jacqueline E. Smith

“Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.”

— Sara Sheridan

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

— Alan Bold

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

— Alan Bold

We are spoilt for beauty in Edinburgh, it's so close to the sea and the mountains.

— Lady Amelia Windsor

Edinburgh is my adopted home. It's a place where I wanted to come and live, and I managed to arrange my life…

— Peter Higgs

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

— Frederic Chopin

I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and…

— Joan Lingard

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of…

— Will Poulter

“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that…

— Benjamin Franklin

[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no…

— Roisin Conaty

I'm sad to say that I've never really kept in touch with my Scottish roots. We never went up there when I…

— David Essex

It is a peculiar experience, prowling the streets of Edinburgh before the festival has begun. No large groups of teenagers in matching…

— Tim Key

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I…

— Michelle Gomez

I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also…

— Marcus Brigstocke

“After walking the Royal Mile, we visit Edinburgh Castle. Overlooking the city from the grassy hilltop of the Castle Rock, the fortress…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to…

— Peter Higgs

I'm terribly taken by the countryside, so I love things like shadows cast by deep woods. I love the autumn. I love…

— Joanna Lumley

At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to…

— Peter Capaldi

When writing about Edinburgh, I place my characters in the parts of the city that I myself have lived in, or else…

— Joan Lingard

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

— Martin Hopkins

“[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]”

— Muriel Spark

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

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

— Shahrukh Khan

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

— Muriel Spark

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

Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream.

— Shahrukh Khan

Edinburgh is a phenomenal location for movies and should be used more.

— Denis Lawson

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

— Iain Stirling

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

— Shirley Manson

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

— Prince Philip

Contrary to the popular caricature of him, the Duke of Edinburgh was neither judgmental nor unfeeling.

— Gyles Brandreth

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

— Jeffery Deaver

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

— Peter Hambleton