Corners Quote by Adam Smith

It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been hunted out of every…

— Adam Smith

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

— A. E. Housman

“stability. It is often noted that, of all existing institutions in the West, higher education is one of most enduring. Oxford University, the longest…

— Cathy N. Davidson

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one…

— E. M. Forster

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the…

— T. S. Eliot

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

Some of the most fundamental beliefs in our world view have evolved from British universities.

— Gavin Williamson

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks.…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Oxford is a very special place. You really sensed the value of a good education there.

— Munira Mirza

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton