Oxford Quotes

Oxford Quote of the day

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

[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.

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

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.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

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.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

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.

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.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

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.

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.

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.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

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?

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

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.

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

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.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

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.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

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.

I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

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.

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.

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?

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

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.