Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but a...s managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly ana...lyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man.... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oxford is--Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love on...e another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably ... have go...ne to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although I had been scribbling in English all my literary life in the margin, so to say, of my Russian writings, [Despair] was my ...first serious attempt (not counting a wretched poem in a Cambridge University review, circa 1920) to use English for what may be loosely termed an artistic purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of... the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »