“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car. — Kanye West 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
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… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on… — Jeanette Winterson 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
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas. — Craig Benzine Copy Share Image
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. — James Meade Copy Share Image
“It’s just that we wear rose-coloured spectacles when we return here [to Oxford] – we are dazzled by the foolish idealism of… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
