Oxford quotes:

Send

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. -- George Santayana
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. -- Anthony Trollope
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. -- Max Beerbohm
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church. -- Nancy Pearcey
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. -- Evelyn Waugh
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. -- William Butler Yeats
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! -- Philip Pullman
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember -- William Butler Yeats
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense. -- Al McGuire
Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down. -- Michael Bastian
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. -- Paul Getty
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. -- Ashley Madekwe
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. -- Lynne Truss
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die. -- Winifred Mary Letts
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. -- Max Beerbohm
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street? -- Gloria Trevi
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See? -- George Bernard Shaw
I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something. -- Thom Yorke
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place. -- Charles Finch
Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts. -- Mao Zedong
Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever. -- Arundhati Roy
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. -- Henry James
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford? -- Johnny Carson
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. -- Lionel Blue
Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead. -- T. S. Eliot
Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism. -- Frank Scott
Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind. -- William J. Clinton
The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. -- Robert Baldwin Ross
I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939. -- Martin Ryle
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. -- Imran Khan
Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there. -- Kevin Whately
It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn. -- Evelyn Waugh
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back. -- Margaret Thatcher
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford. -- John Aubrey
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. -- James Meade
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. -- John Dryden
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford. -- Christina Stead
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. -- Paul Getty
At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. -- Christopher Hitchens
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. -- Nigel Rees
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. -- Kris Kristofferson
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble -- Alister E. McGrath
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. -- George Bernard Shaw
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution. -- Niall Ferguson
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. -- Mary Augusta Ward
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. -- G. H. Hardy
In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964. -- John E. Walker
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! -- Umberto Eco
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. -- Sydney Brenner
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. -- Richard Flanagan
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. -- Harry Carpenter
--
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. -- John Ortberg
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. -- Samuel Butler
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. -- Jonathan Kozol
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub. -- Kevin Whately
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city. -- Samantha Shannon
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them -- Evelyn Waugh
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford. -- Taiye Selasi
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. -- A. A. Milne
I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate. -- Peta Todd
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. -- Oscar Wilde
I had always imagined that ClichÃ© was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. -- Philip Guedalla
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee. -- Emilia Fox
It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' -- Matthew Stewart
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all ... -- Barbara Pym
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: No, you dont. -- Harry Lloyd
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. -- E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." -- Gordon Allport
--
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time. -- Samantha Shannon
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.' -- Harry Lloyd
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. -- Robertson Davies
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. -- Vera Brittain
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean. -- Hilaire Belloc
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.' -- Richard Ayoade
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses. -- A. J. Jacobs
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. -- E. M. Forster
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. -- John Aubrey
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. -- Robert Darnton
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you? -- Kate Beckinsale
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library. -- Chelsea Clinton
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being. -- William E. Gladstone
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. -- Simon Callow
When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well. -- David Hasselhoff
I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York. -- Adrian McKinty
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee. -- Thomas de Quincey
Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them. -- Anthony Trollope
I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. -- Derek Kilmer
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother Courage, Oxford don, 94-year-old wife. -- Diana Quick
The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. -- Kenneth Grahame
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. -- Kenneth Grahame
I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore. -- Sophie Kinsella
Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the hopelessness of even thinking about driving. -- Deborah Moggach
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read English, and I'm really interested in politics. -- Emma Rigby
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed. -- Samantha Morton
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense. -- Henry James
While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002. -- Anne Fortier
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life. -- Mark Haddon
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town. -- Mary Augusta Ward
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. -- William Browne
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul. -- Evelyn Waugh
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, 'Now for the Long Term.' -- Mo Ibrahim
My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time. -- Russell Smith
If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me. -- Gretchen Carlson
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat. -- Margaret Halsey
--
I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy. -- Adrian McKinty
My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English. -- Chris Abani
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. -- James Meade
The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed. -- Maggie Smith
I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended. -- Leonard Alfred George Strong
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance -- Sophie Kinsella
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart. -- Elizabeth I
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever. -- James Gleick
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work. -- V. S. Naipaul
I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on. -- Mick Jagger
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford. -- Nina Bawden
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance. -- Sophie Kinsella
Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community. -- Kevin Whately

Send