Bernard Williams
Related E. M. FORSTER E. M. FORSTER I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rho... RICHARD FLANAGAN I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter... MICHAEL SMITH SAMUEL BUTLER TOM HIDDLESTON NANCY PEARCEY MAX BEERBOHM Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. HARRY CARPENTER I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who coul... EDDIE MARSAN Though his public teaching lasted only three years, it has been scrutinized by scholars in every sci... JON MORRISON STORMZY People who go to Oxford and Cambridge are often unproductive. What am I saying? This is nonsense. No... TOM HOLLANDER REID HOFFMAN I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was s... TIM BLAKE NELSON I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but... ADRIAN MCKINTY The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal car... SIR WILLIAM BROWNE I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942. ANTONY HEWISH Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to th... AARON KLUG I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambr... LUCY GRIFFITHS TOM HIDDLESTON STEPHEN FRY PHILIP GUEDALLA MARTIN REES The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, becau... TREVOR NUNN I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for univers... NAOMIE HARRIS IAN MCKELLEN There was a renaissance of sorts in England at this time, although it's not been given top billing l... DANNY DANZIGER I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for... ANNE CAMPBELL I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. LIONEL BLUE EDDIE REDMAYNE LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, ... BERTIL OHLIN TERRY GILLIAM BORIS JOHNSON ELIZABETH BLACKBURN I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge t... JOHN POPLE I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the result... NINA BAWDEN I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the st... BURTON RASCOE My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or eve... NICK DENTON I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. NIGEL REES I thought Cambridge was in London. JADE GOODIE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Before Gutenberg, libraries were small -- the Cambridge University library had only 122 volumes in 1... LARRY STONE SARA SHEPARD ROWAN ATKINSON MARK HADDON I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to ... PAT BARKER When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather j... TARIQ ALI It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight we... SAMANTHA SHANNON Legendary soul classics performed by one of the greatest soul voices of the 20th Century ... it does... JOE DIMURO ZADIE SMITH Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean. SYD BARRETT I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindber... KURT SUTTER I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. T... WAITE HOYT PAUL ENGLE A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD This (teaching happiness) isn't just psycho-babble or mumbo-jumbo. When I heard that Harvard and Cam... ANTHONY SELDON I was speaking against the Cambridge Road area [development] 30-years-ago when it was being devastat... DAN RILEY My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and... CHRIS ISAAK In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intenti... TIM HUNT I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I... VAL MCDERMID NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE SYDNEY BRENNER JOHN CORNFORTH DEYTH BANGER My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always wat... JEZ BUTTERWORTH I went to the Alabama public schools at a time when my English teachers, all but one of whom was a w... THOMAS H. COOK Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went ... TAIYE SELASI It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while. JONAH RAPINO It is a £6,500 commitment to the future of Exeter speedway, and although we haven't yet got a track... ALLEN TRUMP COCO CHANEL Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment. CECILIA DART-THORNTON MAX BEERBOHM MAX BEERBOHM My grandparents had a house full of books. They were both fluent in several languages. My grandfathe... DANIEL LEVINE ERIC IDLE The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 193... RICHARD RHODES Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has a... ADHIR KALYAN I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income... COLIN BAKER I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researche... RUPERT SHELDRAKE AGATHA CHRISTIE After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Pr... JOSH MALERMAN The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. ROBERT BALDWIN ROSS Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see ... TONY GWYNN It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche a... MATTHEW STEWART ESHA GUPTA A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford. CHRISTINA STEAD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CHARLES BUKOWSKI In 1968, I left Cambridge and went to work in New York with Irving M. London, who was then the chair... TIM HUNT After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a rese... JOHN VANE IAN MCEWAN In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics. MARIA SEMPLE
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to l... 
Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t... 
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth... 
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went t... 
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian... 
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. T... 
It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science. 
I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strength... 
I’ve had to work hard for a lot of things in my life. I remember being told I probably wouldn’t ... 
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner... 
I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxf... 
As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architec... 
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one ... 
For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. B... 
I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, a... 
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend... 
It's economically illiterate. A degree in classics or philosophy can be as valuable as anything else... 
At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among... 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there ... 
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups o... 
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it.... 
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes a... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... 
He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go ac... 
After a year of post-graduate research, I won an 1851 Exhibition scholarship to work at Oxford with ... 
How to get it, I annoy you???
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. 
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. 
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, wi... 
I gather," he added, "that you've never had much time to study the classics?"
I never even wanted to be an actress. I studied mass communication and wanted to study law in Newcas... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
She had not thought it would be so easy to slip into the old roles. Cambridge had changed her fundam... 
People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par... 
The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ... 
Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. 
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But n... 
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. 
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do... 
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... 
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat. 
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes... 
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. 
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection. 
I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distort... 
A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything. 
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some servic... 
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. 
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qu... 
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that ... 
Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau... 
Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ... 
Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. 
I hate to see things done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly, if it be wrong leave it undone. 
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to re... 
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. 
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they... 
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. 
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wast... 
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it f... 
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete... 
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. 
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. 
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. 
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhil... 
It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentf... 
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of ... 
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope 
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that y... 
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who ... 
In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage. 
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chan... 
They’re praying to ham bones, ham bones! The blessed pig! 
I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happil...