Oxford Quotes
149 quotes by 118 authors
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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
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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
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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
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
— Max Beerbohm
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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
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
— Lionel Blue
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
— Samuel Butler
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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
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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
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I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.
— Al McGuire
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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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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