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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
— Samantha Shannon
The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.
— Robert Baldwin Ross
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
— Hilaire Belloc
I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.
— Noam Chomsky
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
I wasn't old enough to realize that I could be my terrible self and have people love me for that.
— Kelly Oxford
Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.
— Philip Zaleski
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
— Henry James
The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
— Oscar Wilde
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
— George Santayana
Theres nothing to fear butfears themselves, such as monsters,
rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
monsters, and oxford commas. — Craig Benzine
who gives a fuck about an oxford comma?
— Vampire Weekend
Having gone to a public school, I thought I knew about posh people. But I didn't know anything until I went to Oxford.
— Rory Kinnear
be emotionally affected by someone or something that one admires; become ecstatic: teenagers swoon over Japanese pop singers.
— Oxford University Press
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.
— Kevin Whately
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
— Kate Beckinsale
A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in
— Philip Pullman
(Oxford: Clarendon
— Friedrich A. Hayek
Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
— William J. Clinton
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being.
— William E. Gladstone
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
— George Bernard Shaw
Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.
— Arundhati Roy
At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.
— E. M. Forster
The best value translations of the Poetic Edda are by Hollander from Texas Uni Press, or by Larrington of Oxford Uni Press.
— Sweyn Plowright
Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes.
— Alexander McCall Smith
We get bored with everything, my angel, it's a law of nature: it's not my fault.
— Laclos, Pierre Choderlos De
We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.
— Kanye West
Brad Pitt is older than Archie Bunker was in the first two seasons of All In The Family.
— Kelly Oxford
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
— Johnny Carson
Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!
— Katherine Parkinson
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
— Margaret Thatcher
At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
— Christopher Hitchens
In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.
— John E. Walker
Everything means something.
— Philip Pullman
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.
— J. Paul Getty
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
— Kenneth Grahame
We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.
— Kanye West
At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble
— Alister E. McGrath
I had weaseled my way into their hearts like I knew I would.
— Kelly Oxford
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
— John Sulston
Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
— T. S. Eliot
We read poems from the Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Neil insisted on spilling wine over my carpet.
— Michael Palin
wonder adults were always miserable. A paycheck was just a bit of compensation for putting up with bullshit.
— Kelly Oxford
Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!
— Umberto Eco
When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.
— David Hasselhoff
Fascinating," I said, turning toward Ian. "You never told me Simon went to Oxford.""Simon went to Oxford, Sophie. — Fisher Amelie
We share half our genes with the banana.
— Robert May, Baron May Of Oxford
Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
— Jeanette Winterson
How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?
— Mike Tucker
Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
— Vera Brittain
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
— John Ortberg
Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well.
— Bernard Cornwell
Wherever you turn your eye - except in science - an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.
— Cecil Rhodes
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
— Richard Ayoade
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.
— Kanye West
I decided to apply to read English at the University of Oxford because it was the most impossible thing I could do.
— Jeanette Winterson
I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
— Taron Egerton
I only write when the spirit moves me ... and the spirit moves me every day. William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi
— William Faulkner
Sorry, I thought I was just thinking that.
— Kelly Oxford
Do or don't, there is no don. Don is an honor not bestowed on any procrastinator, not even a professor at Oxford.
— Jarod Kintz
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
— Sydney Brenner
Time is the only thing you can't buy.
— Nicole Lapin
I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.
— Ashley Madekwe
People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.
— Kanye West
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
— Samantha Morton
When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
— Niall Ferguson
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
— Lionel Blue
I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.
— Emilia Fox
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
— Christina Stead
Are you going to eat me in my sleep?""Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato? — Rain Oxford
For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.
— Radclyffe Hall
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
— Harry Carpenter
Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.
— Mao Zedong
I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.
— Kris Kristofferson