Quotes and Sayings About Oxford
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
-- Al McGuire -
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.
-- Alice Eve -
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
-- Alister E. McGrath -
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 -
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
-- Antonia Fraser -
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 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 was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.
-- Benazir Bhutto -
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.
-- Benjamin Jowett -
Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
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 -
Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.
-- Charlie Brooker -
He was wearing a plain white oxford unbuttoned over a T-shirt, but something about the way they fit made him look put together, like an Abercrombie model (well, like an Abercrombie model who had remembered to put on a shirt that morning).
-- Claire LaZebnik -
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.
-- Colin Baker -
Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.
-- Craig Benzine -
Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
-- David Bowie -
Many of the greatest creations of man have been inspired by the desire to make money...If Oxford undergraduates were paid for their work, I would have performed miracles of scholarship and become Regius Professor of Modern History.
-- David Ogilvy -
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 -
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 -
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.
-- Edmund Crispin -
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous cottages, behind broken windows, mended with oilskin, sprung doors, and rotten door-posts, or in dark, wet cellars, in measureless filth and stench....must surely have reached the lowest stage of humanity.
-- Friedrich Engels -
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
-- G. H. Hardy -
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
-- George Santayana -
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 -
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 -
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
-- Gordon Brown -
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
-- Harry Carpenter -
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 -
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
-- Henry James -
...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
