- Dean: You know my view. If a little learning is a dangerous thing, just think what harm a lot of it can do.
- [Referring to the College Feast]
- Sir Godber Evans: Don't you find this a little indulgent? Particularly in the present economic circumstances.
- Dean: Oh, we never bother with "present economic circumstances".
- Senior Tutor: We find that they tend to go away after fifty years or so.