Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Edinburgh is alive with words.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I had never met these solicitors and never met Divney but they were really all working for me and my father had paid in…

— Flann O'Brien

“In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men…

— Gustave Le Bon

“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He had what…

— Wilkie Collins

“If I had to pick two words to describe Edinburgh, I would tell you that it's majestic and beautiful. Really, really old, but somehow…

— L.H. Cosway

“was an advanced eccentric, and had the disconcerting habit of seizing people in the High Street of Edinburgh, and chanting and crooning these incomprehensible…

— Alistair Campsie

“Better be dead than living without nobility. I'm an Englishman, a man of manners.”

— Deepak Rana

“Perhaps men like the Everseas were commonplace here in England. Perhaps finding a beautiful titled husband would be as simple as shaking an apple…

— Julie Anne Long

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

— Sara Sheridan

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Our collection of men is very antique, they stand in my list thus: A man of sense, a little rusty, a beau a good…

— Elizabeth Montagu

“However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well…

— Jane Austen