Best Quote by Lucy Griffiths

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

— Mel Giedroyc

I think not getting into Cambridge was possibly the best thing that could have happened to me.

— Lolly Adefope

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was…

— Eric Idle

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

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

— Jo Cox

I went to a progressive primary school in Kendal, followed by a boys' grammar school and then Cambridge.

— David Starkey

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

— Gavin Esler

I stayed a year in the sixth form and there was talk of Cambridge, but I wanted to go to drama school. At 17…

— Prunella Scales

I ended up at Durham School, which was lovely, then Trinity College Cambridge.

— Alexander Armstrong

Going to Edinburgh when I was at university and seeing people who were my age just getting up and doing what they wanted to…

— Lolly Adefope

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

— Casey Affleck

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

— Stephen Fry