Eton – Quotes

It\\’s the weird thing

It’s the weird thing Eton does – you’re at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people. Eddie Redmayne

Most Englishmen are convinced

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. E. M. Delafield

The battle of Waterloo

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Duke of Wellington

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 … Read more

When historians get to

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 … Read more

I’d like thousands of

I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. Boris Johnson

There is an old

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, … Read more

An unemployed electrician,whom I

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

I am inclined to

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