Mandell Creighton – Quote Investigator®

Quote Origin: An Oxford Man Looks as If the World Belongs to Him; a Cambridge Man Looks as If He Does Not Care to Whom the World Belongs

Mandell Creighton? James Payn? Helen Ricker Beebe? William Ralph Inge? Jack Hulbert? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Oxford and Cambridge rank among Europe’s oldest and most prestigious centers of higher learning. An oft-repeated comical statement contrasts the attitudes of the students of the two schools: Oxford people think they own the world. Cambridge people do …

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Joke Origin: The Unjust Steals the Just’s Umbrella

Samuel Butler? Eliza Mary Ann Savage? Ogden Nash? Mandell Creighton? Charles Bowen? George Ferguson Bowen? William Burns? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A well-known bible verse, Matthew 5:45, discusses God and the weather: Your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good and the evil, and raineth upon the …

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