Eton Quotes

• As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Misery, Quarters, Uncomfortable

  "A Right Honorable Briton? Hardly, It Turns Out" by Warren Hoge, www.nytimes.com. February 04, 1999.

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• Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

  George Orwell

  War, Battle, Fields

  The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7

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• I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

  Boris Johnson

  Escuela

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

  Cyril Connolly

  Education, Disappointment, School

  Cyril Connolly (1960). “Enemies of promise and other essays: an autobiography of ideas”

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• La batalla de Waterloo se ganó en los campos de juego de Eton.

  Duque de Wellington

  Battle, Fields, Great War

  Atribuido en N.Y. Times, 26 de diciembre de 1886. El primer rastro de esta cita se encuentra en Charles de Montalembert, De l'Avenir Politique de l'Angleterre (1856). Montalembert citó a Wellington, supuestamente de visita en su antigua escuela, en francés: "C'est ici qu'a ete gagnee la bataille de Waterloo". De hecho, Wellington fue un alumno muy poco entusiasta de Eton, y Elizabeth Longford, en Wellington: The Years of the Sword (1969), concluye que "probablemente nunca dijo ni pensó nada parecido". Véase O

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• La mayoría de los ingleses están convencidos de que Dios es inglés, probablemente educado en Eton.

  E. M. Delafield

  Language, Educated, Englishmen

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• There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?

  Auberon Waugh

  Suicide, Boys, Hands

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• Tuve dos experiencias criminales: una fue mi padre estafador, la otra fue enseñar en Eton...

  John le Carre

  Father, Teaching, Two

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• Donde la ignorancia es dicha, es una locura ser sabio.

  Thomas Gray

  Inspiración, Sabiduría, Ignorancia

  "Oda sobre una perspectiva lejana de Eton College" l. 99 (1747)

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• When historians get to write the truth about this completely unnecessary referendum [Brexit] they won't say it was a vote demanded by the British people to decide their national destiny. They will say it was the final battle in a decades-long Tory Civil War, at the heart of which was a fight to the death between two Old Etonians, David Cameron and Boris Johnson, for the hollow crown. A sort of Eton Wall Game. Where the poorest are put up against the wall and shot.

  Brian Reade

  Wall, War, Writing

  Fuente: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, School, Thinking

  "Energized Enthusiasm: A Note On Theurgy". The Equinox, Volume 1, No. 9, www.the-equinox.org. Spring 1913.

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• No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.

  Henry James

  Loyalty, Country, School

  Hawthorne' (1879)

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• Es lo raro que hace Eton: estás en la escuela junto a lores y condes y, en mi caso, Prince William, así que acabas acostumbrándote a tratar con ese tipo de gente.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Escuela, Gente, Doe

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• It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people the inspiration and the drive to make it succeed. In short, the elite.. Every society tries to produce this type. The British have special schools for them: the gifted and talented are sent to Eton and Harrow.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiration, School, People

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• An unemployed electrician,whom I had been taunting with my reminder of how much richer I was, leaned forward and said:'What are your qualifications? I know exactly what your qualifications are.You bent over in the shower to pick up some soap at Eton and Harrow, like all the rest of them.

  Auberon Waugh

  Soap, Bent, Reminders

  Auberon Waugh (1986). "Otra voz: Una anatomía alternativa de Gran Bretaña"

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• Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that?

  Ellen Wilkinson

  Milk, Social, Social Equality

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• Se sostiene que los que han sido educados en Eton, Harrow, Rugby y Westminster, que el sentimiento público dentro de cada una de esas escuelas es elevado y varonil; que, en sus patios de recreo, el valor es universalmente admirado, la mezquindad despreciada, los sentimientos varoniles y la conducta generosa son alentados: que un código de honor no escrito reparte al niño mimado de rango, y al niño de riqueza advenediza una justicia imparcial, purga sus tonterías de ambos, y hace todo lo que se puede hacer para convertirlos en caballeros.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educación, Niños, Escuela

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

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• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, Rivers, America

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• My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

  Osbert Sitwell

  Vacaciones

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• I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

  Harry Lloyd

  School, Thinking, Oxford

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

  Mary Jo Putney

  Girl, Brother, Character

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• I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

  John le Carre

  German Language, Bumblebees, Literature

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• My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  War, School, Pals

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