F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

Everyone praises Harvard 'for the students.' But what makes Harvard's students so great is that they are, in many ways, a cross-section of the larger world. They are normal people who happen to be excellent, and this sets them apart. People who go to Yale go because they want to attend Yale. People who go to Harvard go because they can.

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

I know we have an illegitimate, swaggering, bastard, scrub aristocracy which assumes to know a great deal, but which, when the flowing veil of pretension is torn off, is seen to posses neither talent nor information on which one can rear a useful superstructure.

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

At college - I went to Yale, and everybody's very smart, and everybody has their thing that makes them special, and people at Yale would pretend they didn't recognize me. Only after they'd had a couple of drinks would they start singing the 'Life Goes On' theme song.

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

For wealthy or privileged students, applying to Ivy League schools or elite schools is sort of expected of them. If you go to a prep school, for example, that's just what your guidance counsellor tells you.

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we're recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off.

Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world.