Edinburgh Quotes - Page 4

• For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

  Muriel Spark

  Voice, Missing, Said

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• Many people have heard the remarkable example of devotion involving a Skye terrier dog who worked for a Scottish shepherd named Old Jock. In 1858, the day after Jock was buried (with almost nobody present to mourn him except his shaggy dog) in the churchyard at Greyfriars Abbey in Edinburgh, Bobby was found sleeping on his master's grave, where he continued to sleep every night for fourteen years.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Friendship, Dog, Sleep

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1998). “Dogs Never Lie about Love: Reflections on the Emotional World of Dogs”, Broadway Books

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• [Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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