Edinburgh Quotes - Page 2

• Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

  Prince Philip

  Inspiration, Pirate, Classic

  "Long Line of Princely Gaffes". Said in 1994 to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

  Prince Philip

  School, People, Dukes

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• A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want.

  Prince Philip

  Years, People, Mind

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• We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.

  Prince Philip

  Giving Up, Years, Next Year

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• Don't let your fears become boxes that enclose you. Open them out, feel them and turn them into the greatest courage you are capable of. I promise you, nothing will go wrong. But if you live by your fears, everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong and you won't even have done the 'Funky Chicken'.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Promise, Done, Chickens

  "7 Quotes From Shah Rukh Khan's Speech at Edinburgh That Will Give You Life" by Akshita Jolly, www.cosmopolitan.in. August 2, 2017.

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• Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Philosopher, Rich, Become Rich

  YouTube Channel "The University of Edinburgh"/"Dr Shah Rukh Khan - Life Lessons", www.youtube.com. October 16, 2015.

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

  Shahrukh Khan

  Confused, Confusion, World

  "7 Quotes From Shah Rukh Khan's Speech at Edinburgh That Will Give You Life" by Akshita Jolly, www.cosmopolitan.in. August 2, 2017.

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

  Prince Philip

  Ghastly, Ifs

  Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in 'The Times' 17 Oct. 1986

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

  Prince Philip

  Leisure, Complaining, Unemployed

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Wonder, Deaf

  "Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark". Said to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, news.bbc.co.uk. May 27, 1999.

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

  Prince Philip

  Long, Dukes, Classic

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• There's a lot of your family in tonight.

  Prince Philip

  Tonight, Classic, Our Family

  "'There's a Lot of Your Family in Tonight': What Prince Philip Told Asian Businessman at Reception for British Indians". www.dailymail.co.uk. October 28, 2009.

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• People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.

  Prince Philip

  Fire, Water, People

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, New Orleans, United States

  Mark Twain, Peter Kaminsky (2009). “The Chicago of Europe, and Other Tales of Foreign Travel”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

  Aleister Crowley

  Air, Pleasure Seeking, San Francisco

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• I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Beautiful, Sight, Happy Times

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• 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. Each book hopefully adds another piece to the jigsaw that is modern Scotland, asking questions about the nation's politics, economy, psyche and history ... and perhaps pointing towards its possible future.

  Ian Rankin

  Book, Writing, Asking Questions

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• Edinburgh used to be a haughty city.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Cities, Used, Haughty

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

  Nik Kershaw

  Real, Good Things, Polite

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• Edinburgh is an experience
  A city of enormous gifts
  Whose streets sing of history
  Whose cobbles tell tales.

  Alan Bold

  Cities, Tales, Enormous

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

  Frederic Chopin

  Men, People, Blind

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.375, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Penelope Keith

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• 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.

  Jamie Bell

  Interesting, Church, Skylines

  "Hallam Foe - Jamie Bell interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Doe, Toronto

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• I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

  Tony D'Souza

  Morning, Long, Guy

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