Quotes About Edinburgh

As in old Edinburgh, drink opened the doors for free intellectual exchange. The

to be known as "an Edinburgh Reviewer" made people stop and stare at dinner parties or literary gatherings—although sometimes it made other people stand up and walk out.

Intellectuals in Edinburgh were thrilled, not offended, when in the summer of 1761 the Irish actor and "orthoepist" (or pronunciation expert) Thomas Sheridan arrived in town to offer a series of lectures on English elocution.

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

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

The Mill on the Floss was first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London, while the first American edition was published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co, of New York. The work is considered to be Eliot's most autobiographical novel and her long time partner George Lewes reported that the process of writing the conclusion to such a personal tale caused her great emotional distress.

I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages are so crucial for working in the fashion industry and it is wonderful when you can communicate with everyone.

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

The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.

Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and constantly falls foul of his seniors. For all this, we root for him. He is eminently loveable, a quixotic hero moving through the darker half of a Jekyll and Hyde Edinburgh.

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

Stevenson's last year at Edinburgh University must have just about coincided with my first one, and Barrie must have been in that grey old nest of learning about the year 1876. Strange to think that I probably brushed elbows with both of them in the crowded portal.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.

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

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

Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.

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.

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

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

My dad's pretty funny. He's funny for all of the wrong reasons. The first time I did standup at Edinburgh he sat in the front row and wore sunglasses because he didn't want to put me off.

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

Eleven years ago, my wife and I had had a baby, so I didn't go to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in years. Tim Key won the comedy award and I was sat at home with the baby feeling very jealous, genuinely.