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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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