Oxford Quotes

149 quotes by 118 authors

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort… — Rowan Atkinson
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you? — Kate Beckinsale
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. — Max Beerbohm
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that… — Benazir Bhutto
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. — Lionel Blue
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything. — Samuel Butler
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and… — A. J. Jacobs
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." — Gordon Allport
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense. — Al McGuire
He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA… — Lou Albano
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there.… — George Bernard Shaw
New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of… — Philip Green
The New Oxford Dictionary has declared Sarah Palin's word 'refudiate' to be the 2010 Word of the Year. Palin was honored and said she would… — Conan O'Brien
None but the most blindly credulous will imagine the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the… — Edmund Crispin
I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same… — Sophie Kinsella
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me… — Philip Pullman
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. — Mary Augusta Ward
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to… — Mary Augusta Ward

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