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 »
When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain... Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »