Oxford Quotes

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.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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.

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.

...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.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

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.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

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.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

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.

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.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

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.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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.

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.

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.

I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

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.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

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

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.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would do her best to 'dismangle' the English language.

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

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.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.

Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the undergraduates' relentless snobbery and unremitting emphasis on money.