If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn’t resent this, but I didn’t particularly enjoy it, and whenever I could, I withdrew into my own private world. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics – these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics? Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship to Trinity College the previous year. Perhaps if there had not been quite so many things to distract me, I might have remained a mathematician. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
My father did not drink beer. He said he didn’t like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn’t like the taste either. So I stuck to bottled cider. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
War and love – they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
When one is a child, one has little say in the matter: one’s parents decide. Mine chose Cotchford, and they chose the various schools I was sent to as I grew up. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote
I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield. Christopher Robin Milne Read Quote