Oxford Quotes

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

— Al McGuire

I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

— Andrew Gower

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

— Mao Zedong

“Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”

— T.S. Eliot

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

— Imran Khan

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

— Frank Scott

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

— Anthony Trollope

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

— Epictetus

I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to…

— Derek Kilmer

The fact is I never intended to be a chef. After Oxford University I had this weird idea of running a nightclub.

— Rick Stein

Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.

— Michael Bastian

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”

— E.M. Forster

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

— Mary Augusta Ward

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

— Kris Kristofferson

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

— Emilia Fox

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of…

— Mark Haddon

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of…

— Benjamin Jowett

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what…

— Anonymous

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I…

— Mary Augusta Ward

New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to…

— Philip Green

People can underestimate you when you're blonde and from Essex, but it's easy to shut that down. I used to get dumb…

— Rachel Riley

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had…

— Thomas Sydenham

If you want to be anonymous, you can go to Soho or Camden, and it's not a problem. There are a lot…

— Juan Mata

I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was the author of all those…

— Rhys Ifans

Things may not go to plan, but the unexpected throws up experiences and opportunities you had never dreamed of. I didn't get…

— John Robins

It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow…

— Richard Dawkins

I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but…

— Katherine Parkinson

We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts…

— Evelyn Waugh

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no…

— Henry James

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of…

— Nina Bawden

“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off…

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

“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

“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

“Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it,…

— William Hazlitt

A formative influence on my undergraduate self was the response of a respected elder statesmen of the Oxford Zoology Department when an…

— Richard Dawkins

“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

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

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the…

— Christopher Hitchens

At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.

— Sam Gyimah