Top 171 Edinburgh Quotes & Sayings

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.

Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

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 highbrow literature celebrity society.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.

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.

I think the Duke of Edinburgh would have been pleasantly surprised by the reaction to his death.

I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

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

Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh's disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt to hide it.

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

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

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

It's awkward going back up to Edinburgh to see my old friends, because I'm not on the same wavelength.

My introduction to the Queen was disconcerting, to say the least. 'This is Gyles Brandreth,' said the Duke of Edinburgh cheerily. 'Apparently, he's writing about you.'

Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.

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

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 be rather dismal.

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.

In my career, all my most important breaks have come from Edinburgh. Winning awards, being reviewed, bagging my BBCR4 series and the chance to tour has all come from Edinburgh, which begs the question, why the hell have I left it so long to come back?

My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.

This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.

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

In Edinburgh, they've got the most insane charity shops ever.

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

I've spent some time in Edinburgh before. I used to go up there to busk and actually went to the Fringe a few times as a teenager with my cello.

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

The first year I was in Edinburgh in 1999 I got six parking tickets.

I was accepted by a college in Edinburgh but I think the acceptance letter shocked me into realising it wasn't what I wanted.

I had always wanted to do comedy, but didn't know where to start - all I knew was that Edinburgh was where it happened.

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

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

You will always worry - a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.

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

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.

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

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.

Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to do, was quite a clincher for me.

Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in.

Edinburgh is good craic. A romantic and beautiful city, it's one those places that makes me smile when I think about it - there are other places I would never dare go back to, but Edinburgh is very special.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that's because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.

I'd done an Edinburgh show before, in 1981, called 'The Importance of Being Varnished' - I was in the pun trade at the time.

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

I'd known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I'd long been accustomed to his sense of humor.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

I've been to Venice, Rome, and Dubrovnik, but none of them come close to Edinburgh.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

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

I try and avoid the big comics in Edinburgh. You can see them on tour. Edinburgh is all about seeing the smaller comedians.

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

Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.