Cambridge Quote by A. A. Milne

I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It…

— Naomie Harris

What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I…

— Stuart Hall

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about…

— Tariq Ali

In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and…

— Mary Beard

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

— Richard Ayoade

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to…

— Bernard Williams

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

— Stephen Hawking

I loved being in Cambridge. I think about it often. It was this great little capsule of time to me.

— Jessie Mueller

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

— A. E. Housman

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one…

— E. M. Forster

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It [Cambridge] wasn't a holy grail in the sense that I'd never been to Cambridge. But then, when I did go, the contrast between…

— Alan Bennett