Prejudice Quote by Adam Smith

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

— A. E. Housman

The only asylum Was the poorhouse, and thosewho could afford, Rather than send their folks to such a place, Kept them at home; and…

— Robert Frost

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to…

— Pat Conroy

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

— Herman Melville

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

— Samantha Shannon

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young…

— Evelyn Waugh

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

— George Bernard Shaw

“A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.…

— Herman Melville

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode…

— Hayley Atwell

“The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.”

— George Herman

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

— Carl Jung