Best Oxford Quotes
149 Oxford quotes by 115 unique authors
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I refused this evening at Oxford University to debate with an Israeli, a supporter of the apartheid state of Israel. The reason is simple: no…
— George Galloway
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Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to…
— Jonathan Carroll
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Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
— Cecil Rhodes
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It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
— Philip Guedalla
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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
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Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was…
— Max Beerbohm
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
— Harry Carpenter
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The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
— John Aubrey
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Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.
— Michael Bastian
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This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed…
— John Aubrey
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Let's say you went to Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge, and you said, 'I've come here because I'm in search of morality, guidance and consolation;…
— Alain de Botton
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
— William Butler Yeats
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Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed…
— Frances O'Grady
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Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send…
— Thomas Sydenham
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Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school…
— Max Beerbohm
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Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown…
— Michio Kaku
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in…
— Oscar Wilde
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But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous…
— Friedrich Engels
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I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a…
— Thom Yorke
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It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it…
— Richard Dawkins
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I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school…
— Nina Bawden
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In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the…
— Rene Dubos
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...60 advocates of unorthodox therapies whose credentials are given in the ACS book (above).(:) Of these 60, thirty-nine or almost two-thirds, hold...medical degrees from such…
— Ralph W. Moss
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