Able Quote by Samuel Butler

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

— Samuel Butler

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn…

— Eddie Marsan

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

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

— Emma Rigby

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

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when…

— Tom Hiddleston

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

— John Ortberg

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

In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the…

— Adrian Bell

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities…

— Nancy Pearcey

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the…

— Lord Chesterfield

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