British Quote by Sebastian Coe

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

— James Meade

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied…

— Jasper Fforde

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I…

— Patrick Bamford

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

“I had a professor in college who returned our graded essays, walked up to the chalkboard, and wrote in huge letters: “SO WHAT?” She…

— Austin Kleon

I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material…

— Greg Mankiw

Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B.…

— Louis Auchincloss

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then…

— Robert Benchley

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

— Emilia Fox

“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

The funniest situation in student life when we have no idea what to write in the exam paper and the supervisor comes and says,…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

— Ellie Kemper