Art Quote by Jo Nesbo

“Even at their height, the Scandinavian welfare states left the economy to the private sector—which was then taxed at very high rates to pay…

— Tony Judt

“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds, were…

— Jane Austen

“I try not to look like a university man here....My fellow-guests think of a university degree as a disgraceful preliminary to the blood-sucking life…

— Eilis Dillon

“From my great-grandfather: not to have attended schools for the public; to have had good teachers at home, and to realize that this is…

— Marcus Aurelius

“There was something alienating about being on scholarship, a tense mixture of gratefulness and otherness. You're talented, the money said, and we want you…

— Riley Redgate

“The poet and poetess have always had a rough time of it in the Republic. It has ever been their endemic luck to starve,…

— Guy Davenport

“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

“On my way home that evening I felt an effervescence of spirit which built up inside me until I felt like shouting out loud…

— E.R. Braithwaite

“My parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination…

— J.K. Rowling

“Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.”

— Lionel Shriver

“In Sweden, everyone is assumed to have similar resources, so it seems inappropriate to pay for someone else.”

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

“Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the…

— Hilary Spurling