Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Youthquake' wasn't an entirely predictable choice for Oxford's Word of 2017. It hasn't been on the lips of an entire nation, nor… — Susie Dent 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
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical… — Ralph W. Moss 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
That was the fun of acting, being a blank canvas you could transform into the character - Indian princess, 20s vamp, Mother… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in… — Elizabeth I 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
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
I did really well at school, and I would have loved to have gone to Oxford or Cambridge. I would have read… — Emma Rigby Copy Share Image
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair… — Adrian Bell 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
