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

“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford]…

— Benjamin Jowett

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

— Richard Flanagan

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United…

— Kate Beckinsale

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.…

— Robert Darnton

“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal…

— Tracy Chevalier

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

— Kanye West

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

— Oscar Wilde

Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy…

— Peter Bradshaw

I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on the motorway.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of…

— William Hazlitt

Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its…

— Mo Ibrahim

“Very well. I will take you to Oxford. It might be an educational opportunity at that. You can see the college your father attended,…

— Barbara Metzger

Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away…

— Alan Thein Durning