I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.


Speaking at the Oxford Union, December 2, 1920; quoted in Beverley Nichols 25: Being a Young Man's Candid Recollections of his Elders and Betters (London, 1926), ch. 7, p. 69.

Horatio Bottomley Quotes

I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.