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From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. — James Meade
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look… — William Shakespeare
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . .… — Matthew Arnold
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with… — William Hazlitt
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade. — John Dryden
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… — Evelyn Waugh
My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early… — Antonia Fraser
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. — Paul Getty
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. — Robertson Davies
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That… — Paul Engle
There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could… — Mark Haddon
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another. — E. M. Forster
I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become… — Mark Haddon
Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I… — Tom Hiddleston
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. — Imran Khan
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard… — V.S. Naipaul
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. — George Santayana
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale,… — Gloria Trevi
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. — Anthony Trollope
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of… — Evelyn Waugh
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that… — Arabella Weir
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of… — William Butler Yeats
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… — Evelyn Waugh
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart! — Umberto Eco

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