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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter… — Oscar Wilde
...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself… — Henry James
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later… — Oscar Wilde
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. — Henry James
Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want… — Timothy B. Tyson
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,… — Henry James
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job,… — Nina Bawden
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble — Alister E. McGrath
I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not. — Nigel Rees
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support… — Samantha Morton
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939. — Martin Ryle
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men. — John Aubrey
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. — G. H. Hardy
I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to… — Sophie Kinsella
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't… — Colin Baker
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford. — Sydney Brenner
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic… — Simon Callow
My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt… — Alice Eve
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical… — Peter Agre
Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have… — Charlie Brooker
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It… — James Meade

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