Connections Quote by Crispin Blunt

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one…

— E. M. Forster

I didn't know a thing about Oxford and had never been to Britain. My father suggested it because in 1939 he had been about…

— Tariq Ali

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in…

— Evelyn Waugh

This souls'prison we call England.

— George Bernard Shaw

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young…

— Evelyn Waugh

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…

— Mark Haddon

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

— Daniel Tosh

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off…

— Samantha Shannon

Prison conditions in some parts of the world can be very poor, overcrowded and, in some cases, dangerous and sentences can be much tougher…

— David Lidington

The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Oxford is a very special place. You really sensed the value of a good education there.

— Munira Mirza

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke