I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis… — James Meade Copy Share Image
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater,… — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically untrue. I… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires -… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew. — Harry Carpenter Copy Share Image
“He likes it. The fairy-tale topography of the town. A make-believe world of walled gardens. The quietness of summer. The stone-floored lodge… — David Szalay Copy Share Image
New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to… — Philip Green Copy Share Image
Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
