Aristocracy Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

— Munira Mirza

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

— Samantha Shannon

It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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

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

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

The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

In real life, Oxford and Cambridge are two excellent universities, like many others in the country. They are full of highly intelligent, hard-working, and…

— Mary Beard