The post-war period has not been marked bya great aesthetic debate about the novel comparable to that of the earlier half of the century, in part because the role of the writer and critic divided, the writer going off to the marketplace and the critic to the university (which eventually turned out to be much the same thing).

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  The Modern British Novel, preface.

The true University these days is a collection of books.

-Carlyle,Thomas
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic,'The Hero as Man of Letters'.

Aye,'tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an

-Congreve,William

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, House of Commons,11 Mar.

President Clinton returned today†to the university wherehe didn't inhale, didn't get drafted, and didn't get a degree.

-Dowd, Maureen
  On President Clinton's visit to Oxford where as a Rhodes Scholar he had tried marijuana, avoided conscription, and left to attendYale Law School. In the NewYork Times, 9  Jun.

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere† But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampöthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

-Gerhardie,William Alexander
  Polyglots, ch.7.

To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

-Gibbon, Edward
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.3.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

-Goheen, Robert F(rancis)
  Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23  Jun.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

-Hazlitt,William
Table Talk, vol.1,'The Ignorance of the Learned'.

Thisgreat College, of this ancient University, has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar than Wordsworth, betwixt and between.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  Speech on taking up the Chair of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Greater lovethanthis,hesaid, nomanhaththat a manlay down his wife for his friend.Go thou and do likewise. Thus, or words to that effect, saith Zarathustra, sometime regius professor of French letters to the university of Oxtail.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Ulysses.

A university where, at last, the Jews are hosts, and not guests as we have always been before.

-Sachar, Abram Leon
  Of Brandeis University, on its10th anniversary. Speech, 19 Nov.

The branch of economics dealing with how to enrich a new nation ('economic development' was the title) was actually forbidden by the courts, on the grounds that no university could pay for the damage its teachers did.

-Stigler, GeorgeJoseph
  'The History ofTruth inTeaching', inThe Intellectual and the Marketplace (1984).

I had the honor to be the first non-Jewish professor dismissed from a German university.

-Tillich, Paul Johannes
Recalled on his death, 22 Oct1965.