Cambridge quotes

Cambridge has always tried to be more typical and less exotic than the other place.

-Anonymous
  In The Listener,14  Aug.'The other place' has traditionally come to be used of Cambridge from an Oxford viewpoint and vice versa.

Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.

- Karl Baedeker
  Great Britain, Route 30:'From London to Oxford'.

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

- Rupert Chawner Brooke
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, ForTories own no argument but force; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.

-William Browne
Literary  Anecdotes.

Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say, Have ye not seen us walking every day? Was there a tree about which did not know The love betwixt us two?

- Abraham Cowley
  'On the Death of Mr William Harvey'.

   the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds

- e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings cummings
  Tulips and Chimneys,'Sonnets-Realities', no.1.

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male istoaccept a womannot merelyas feeling, not merelyas thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

- Sylvia Plath
  Written while a student at Cambridge University, in Isis, 6 May.

I can't tell who's leadingit's either Oxford or Cambridge.

-John Snagge
  Radio commentary on the Boat Race, when the engine of Snagge's launch broke down. Quoted in C Dodd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1983), ch.14.