First Day Quote by Mark Twain

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth…

— William Hazlitt

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelve-month…

— William Hazlitt

“Very well. I will take you to Oxford. It might be an educational opportunity at that. You can see the college your father attended,…

— Barbara Metzger

“results. He had applied to Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. He was thinking of applying to Stanford too, but didn’t think he’d get in.…

— Danielle Steel

To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to…

— Edward Gibbon

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

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

“In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?”

— Dan Brown

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

— Evelyn Waugh

“Sister Georgina had studied at Cambridge or, as she put it, 'Not-the-one-in-Massachusetts-Cambridge-Universitythe-real-one-you-know-in-England.”

— Terry Pratchett

I am honoured to be accepting this degree from Oxford University, a world famous educational institution. This is a very special day for my…

— Rahat Fateh Ali Khan