Frederic Chopin
Composer
"After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine."
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Edinburgh
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Prince Philip
Royalty
"I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family."
Prince Philip
Royalty
"The bastards murdered half my family."
Prince Philip
Royalty
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."
Prince Philip
Royalty
"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
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"You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly."
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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."
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"Do you still throw spears at each other?"
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"It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland."
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"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
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"Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf."
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"You look like you're ready for bed!"
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"You managed not to get eaten then?"
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"You're not wearing mink knickers,are you?"
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"Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?"
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"Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?"
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"If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion."
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"There's a lot of your family in tonight."
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"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
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"The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry."
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"When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous."
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