Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. Sylvia Plath
…the men who get things done are the men who walk up and down the King’s Parade, from 2 to 4, every day of their lives. F M Cornford (on Cambridge University politics)
For Cambridge people rarely smile,
Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
Rupert Brooke
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. Samuel Butler
Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between. A E Housman
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. A E Housman
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me. Bertrand Russell