The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. — Robert Baldwin Ross Copy Share Image
I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
It's lovely going to Oxford, it's very difficult to film there as you're doing a period drama in a city which is… — Roger Allam Copy Share Image
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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,… — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I prefer simpler shirts, like a solid oxford or pinstripe, and with a solid cashmere crewneck or V-neck. — Michael Bastian Copy Share Image
One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego,… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it… — Jeffrey Bernard Copy Share Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Children, as well as grown-ups, in their individual, glorified, drudgery-proof homes of Labrador, the tropics, the Orient, or where you will, to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
When I was young, we thought that Oscar Wilde was a great nobleman who had thrown his life away for love. Nothing… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
