Cambridge Quotes

I am terribly proud of-I was born in Cambridge in 1952 and my initials are DNA!

— Douglas Adams

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

— Samuel Butler

I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.

— H. Jon Benjamin

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

— Hugh Laurie

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

— Rupert Brooke

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

— Stephen Hawking

Who knows more about the usage of personal data than Cambridge Analytica?

— Brittany Kaiser

It wasn't until I got to Cambridge that I discovered active discrimination against women.

— Mary Beard

Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that…

— John G. D. Clark

Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the…

— Anthony Trollope

I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read…

— Emma Rigby

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember…

— Claire Tomalin

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and…

— Stephen Fry

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing…

— Ricky Hatton

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that…

— Terry Gilliam

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

— E. M. Forster

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to…

— Bonnie Raitt

Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were…

— Eric Idle

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour,…

— Sid Waddell

So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while…

— Salman Rushdie

When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy.…

— Eric Idle

I still don't like authority exercised without reason. But they laugh at you at Cambridge if you say that sort of thing.…

— John Lloyd

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of…

— Max Beerbohm

I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining…

— Ally Carter

In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio…

— Martin Ryle

It's common to think things will never happen where you are-never in Cambridge, never in New York, never in Seattle-that sort of…

— Mike Daisey

After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge…

— Philip Kitcher

“The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at…

— Richard Rhodes

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent…

— Alan Bennett

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when…

— Freeman Dyson

I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful…

— Fred Hoyle

“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The Bloomsbury Group has been characterised as a liberal, pacifist, and at times libertine, intellectual enclave of Cambridge-based privilege. The Cambridge men…

— Jane Goldman

“He thinks, if you were born in Putney, you saw the river every day, and imagined it widening out to the sea.…

— Hilary Mantel

“I look up at the sky, wondering if I'll catch a glimpse of kindness there, but I don't. All I see are…

— Haruki Murakami

“One day at Fenner's (the university cricket ground at Cambridge), just before the last war, G. H. Hardy and I were talking…

— C.P. Snow

“Have I mentioned looking in Savona, New York, ever? Or in Cambridge, Massachusetts?”

— David Markson

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

— A. E. Housman

The day I left to go to Cambridge, I knew I was going to finish top scorer in the league.

— Paul Mullin