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My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton. -- Osbert Sitwell
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. -- Duke of Wellington
Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton. -- E. M. Delafield
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. -- Boris Johnson
I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton -- John le Carre
Free milk will be provided in Hoxton and Shoredith, in Eton and Harrow. What more social equality can you have than that? -- Ellen Wilkinson
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: No, you dont. -- Harry Lloyd
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
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
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
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
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
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. -- Duke of Wellington
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
If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton. -- Sebastian Horsley
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pÃ¦derastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools. -- Aleister Crowley
There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff. -- John le Carre
Someone with 4As at A-level from Eton may look good on paper and come across as very smooth, but push a bit more, and often you get the impression they have learned to pass exams rather than think for themselves. -- Cherie Blair
Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up. -- Charlie Siem
I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure. -- Carl Honore
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
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
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
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
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

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