Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Do or don’t, there is no don. Don is an honor not bestowed on any procrastinator, not even a professor at Oxford.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it. — Eve Best Copy Share Image
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree. — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
“...quite the chilliest and least human known to me. You see brains floating like so many sea-anemones, nor have they shape or… — Virginia Woolf 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
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.… — Arabella Weir 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
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart… — Winifred Mary Letts Copy Share Image
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
[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he… — Bob Hawke 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
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford… — Patricia Leavy 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
I don't think RADA wanted me, actually. When I was at Oxford I had a boyfriend at Central [School of Speech and… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“There, eastward, within a stone’s throw, stood the twin towers of All Souls, fantastic, unreal as a house of cards, clear-cut in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)… — 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
“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
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
![“[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely. I think he formed friendships with them, which established his judgement about the question of…” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6c/bob-hawke-7891_black_malcolm-fraser-went-straight-from-melbou_2265017.jpg)
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