Famous Quotes about Edinburgh
"It seems like a city built on precipices, a perilous city. Great roads rush down hill like rivers in spate. Great buildings rush up like rockets".
GK Chesterton, 1905
"The view of Edinburgh from the road before you enter Leith is quite enchanting: it is, as Albert said, fairy-like".
Queen Victoria
"Edina ! Scotia's darling seat !"
Robert Burns, Address to Edinburgh
"Edinburgh (in my estimation the most beautiful city in Britain)"
HRH Prince Charles, A Vision of Britain, 1989
"A city that possesses a boldness and grandeur of situation beyond any that I have ever seen".
Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX, 1769
"What a wonderful City Edinburgh is! What alternation of height and depth".
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Spring gallant from the shadows of her smoke, Cragged, spired and turreted, her virgin fort beflagged".
R.L. Stevenson, Edinburgh from the South Seas
"Piled deep and massy, close and high Mine own romantic town".
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion
"I felt that I had seen, not one, but two cities a city of the past and of the present set down side by side, as if for the purposes of comparison, with a picturesque valley drawn like a deep score between them, to mark off the line of division".
Hugh Miller on his first view of Edinburgh, 1824
"There is no habitation of human beings in this world so fine in its way... as this, the capital of Scotland".
Andrew Carnegie
"When I looked out in the morning it is as if I had waked in Utopia".
George Elliot
"This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality".
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Edinburgh is a mad god's dream".
Hugh MacDiarmid, The Complete Poems, 1978
