Anthony-powell Quote by Hilary Spurling

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

— Max Beerbohm

“Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university…

— Dale Carnegie

Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I…

— David Ogilvy

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At…

— Jon Krakauer

“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades and days.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He has little hope that university, when he gets there next year, will be any different. Like right now, all these pupils taking notes…

— Tabitha Suzuma

“THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY I came up to in 1917 was a shadow of her normal, self-assured self, its population a tenth of that in…

— Laurie R. King

“There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work to raise himself in the social scale, had filled…

— Joseph Conrad

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera

“Each time we talk, he listens to me ramble, then he tries to pass on some sort of life lesson. He warns me that…

— Mitch Albom

“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to…

— Virginia Woolf