Top 356 Oxford Quotes & Sayings

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was an editor at Oxford at that time. We connected at a conference and over the course of lunch she told me about a wonderful new series she had just developed called Understanding Research.

I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.

Going to Oxford didn't necessarily make a person clever.

Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II.

When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

I love Oxford Circus, so I can do Primarni, and I can do River Island and Topshop and Selfridges.

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

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

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP in the Nineties.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

I wish I'd gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I'd already started as a comedian.

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' because the place can make you feel cut off from the rest of the world. I would forget there were places like London that were not centred round libraries and essays.

Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxford. The gentlest of gentle academics, he helped establish a centre in Tibetan studies at Oxford and converted to Buddhism.

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.

When I was at Oxford, I was a Thatcher child; I was fascinated by politics and I spent three years being obnoxious in the Oxford Union.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I live part of the time in Oxford, and I love it.

I trained at the Oxford School of Drama.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

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

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

Youthquake' wasn't an entirely predictable choice for Oxford's Word of 2017. It hasn't been on the lips of an entire nation, nor is it new. But it amply fulfilled the criteria Oxford requires for selection.

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

Well, start waving and yelling, because it is the so-called Oxford comma and it is a lot more dangerous than its exclusive, ivory-tower moniker might suggest. There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and people who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. Oh, the Oxford comma. Here, in case you don't know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: "The flag is red, white, and blue." So what do you think of it? Are you for or against it? Do you hover in between?

I was born in Oxford. I grew up in Cascais, Portugal.

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

Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.

An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

At the Oxford Union I'd never debated before but I gave it a go.

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

My experience came before most of you were born. My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn't normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge. But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge. So, half a dozen of us tried - not all of us in history - and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

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.