Day Quote by Fiona Bruce

The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since…

— C. S. Lewis

“You need to be careful around those posh boys when you go to Oxford. They may seem charming, but they’re not like nice dependable…

— Georgiana Derwent

“Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been…

— Benjamin Franklin

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

— Evelyn Waugh

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

— Max Beerbohm

“It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means 'noble valiant…

— James Goss

Most commonly, I've been recognized from people who aren't actually from England.

— Maisie Williams

What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I…

— Stuart Hall

You know, I've just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion…

— David Tennant

I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.

— Martin Freeman

I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial…

— Justin Cartwright

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like…

— Ian Mckellen