Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?
You managed not to get eaten then?
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
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.
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.
I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to. '
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.
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.
Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.
I have an older brother and an older sister - and they had the time of their lives at university. They were at Newcastle and Edinburgh. Looking up to them the whole time, I wanted to go to university and live the life they were living, having a blast, and I didn't get in. I didn't get into any of the universities I wanted to go to.
Do you still throw spears at each other?
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
