40 Best Edinburgh Quotes and Edinburgh Captions for Your Trip to Scotland 2024
Known for its beautiful castle, the Royal Mile and Arthur’s seat, the historical city of Edinburgh is one of the best cities in the world!
So if you’re looking to learn more then you’re in the right place. Below I’ve curated a bumper list of Edinburgh quotes that are guaranteed to have you booking your next trip to Scotland!
Not only can you use these quotes about Edinburgh to inspire your vacation, but they are also perfect for those looking for Edinburgh Captions for Instagram!
Edinburgh Castle Instagram Captions
Enjoying a reign-y day here at Edinburgh castle.
Joust do it.
I love to stay in castles every two weeks to enjoy a good fort-night.
Nothing can ruin this view.
I’m just dancing on my throne.
Turn that crown upside down.
I couldn’t have afforded to live in a castle, but it would have been peasant.
Edinburgh Captions for Instagram
“And yet the place establishes an interest in people’s hearts; go where they will, they find no city of the same distinction.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Edinburgh is alive with words.” – Sara Sheridan
“There’s no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.” – Alan Bold
“Edinburgh is a sort of gothic fairytale city, and it can be a gothic horror city as well.” – David Mackenzie
Edinburgh Puns
Edin-brrrrrrrrrr
Winter in Edinburgh is snow joke!
Even the rain can’t dampen Edinburgh’s beauty.
Some like it, Scot!
Thistle do nicely
Love Edinburgh? Kilt-y as charged!
If you don’t love Edinburgh, you should be tartan fettered.
Famous Quotes about Edinburgh
“But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream.” – Hugh MacDiarmid
“I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.” – Alan Rickman
“Beautiful city of Edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen; with your ancient palace of Holyrood and Queen’s Park Green; and your big, magnificent, elegant New College; where people from all nations can be taught knowledge.” – William McGonagall
“Edinburgh isn’t so much a city, more a way of life… I doubt I’ll ever tire of exploring Edinburgh, on foot or in print.” – Ian Rankin
Best Edinburgh Insta Captions
“The most beautiful of all the capitals of Europe.” – Sir John Betjeman
“When I looked out in the morning it is as if I had waked in Utopia.” – George Elliot
“Coming back to Edinburgh is to me like coming home.” – Charles Dickens
“I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.” – Joan Lingard
“Edinburgh is a hotbed of genius.” – Tobias Smollett
Instagram Captions for Edinburgh
“Enchanting… [Edinburgh] shall make a delightful summer capital when we invade Britain.”- Joseph Goebbels
“Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is quite lovely – bits of it.” – Oscar Wilde
“It seemed as if the rock and castle assumed a new aspect every time I looked at them; and Arthur’s Seat was perfect witchcraft. I don’t wonder that anyone residing in Edinburgh should write poetically.” – Washington Irving
Edinburgh Instagram Captions
“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
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured – we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.” ― Sara Sheridan
“Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around.” – Rupert Friend
“The view of Edinburgh from the road before you enter Leith is quite enchanting: it is, as Albert said, fairy-like and what you would only imagine as a thing to dream of, or to see in a picture.” – Queen Victoria’s journal
Quotes on Edinburgh
There are no stars as lovely as Edinburgh street-lamps. –Robert Louis Stevenson
“I love coming back to Edinburgh. It’s nice to spend real time here.” – Sophie Wu
I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts. –Peter Hambleton
“The Scots think of it as their capital; they’re too possessive, Edinburgh belongs to the world.”- Richard Demarco
“Edina! Scotia’s darling seat!” – Robert Burns
“Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and America give the preference to the former, all other countries give it to the latter.” – Thomas Jefferson
That’s the Best Edinburgh Quotes about Scotland
That’s the end of my bumper list, so I hope you’ve managed to find the perfect Edinburgh quote.
I’d love to know which one is your favourite, and if I’ve missed any awesome quotes about Edinburgh then please let me know in the comments below.
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