Oxford Quotes

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.

My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.

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

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

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for God's sake. Have you walked down Oxford Street recently? Misanthropy's the only thing that gets you through it. It's not a personality flaw, it's a skill.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

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.

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

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.

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

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

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

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

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.

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

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.