Edinburgh Quotes

51 quotes by 47 authors

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… — Herbert Wind
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced… — Charles Darwin
The Duke of Edinburgh has perfected the art of saying hello and goodbye in the same handshake. — Jennie Bond
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just… — Gerard Butler
Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh. — Jeffery Deaver
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… — Danny Boyle
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, — Rory Bremner
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always. — Alan Bold
Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858,… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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… — Irvine Welsh
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… — Mark Twain
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… — Penelope Keith
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine... — Frederic Chopin
This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could… — Paul Nurse
Edinburgh used to be a haughty city. — Alexander McCall Smith
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… — Douglas Alexander
Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. — Rupert Friend
[Edinburgh] 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

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47 authors contributed a total of 51 Edinburgh Quotes, led by these top contributors: