Magdalen quotes

To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

- Edward Gibbon
Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.3.

'We two,'she said,'will seek the groves Where the lady Mary is, With her five handmaidens, whose names Are five sweet symphonies, Cecily,Gertrude, Magdalen, Margaret and Rosalys.'

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza18.