Edinburgh Quotes

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

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

Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

The bastards murdered half my family.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

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

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

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 an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

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

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

Do you still throw spears at each other?

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 you lost the hole, except on medal days when it counted as a rub of the green.

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

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 General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

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 their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

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

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

You look like you're ready for bed!

You managed not to get eaten then?

If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.

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

Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?