Oxford Quotes
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Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.
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So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.
thomas de quincey— Pt. I (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856))
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task."
samuel johnson— July 21, 1763, p. 126.
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.
— Max Beerbohm, in Connie Robertson Dictionary of Quotations, Wordsworth Editions, 1 January 1998, p.34
The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force: With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
— Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Letter to William Sanday, 30 May 1900; Brock and Curthoys (ed.) History of the University of Oxford (2000) vol. 7, pt. 2, ch. 25. Knowles, Elizabeth. "Lord Salisbury". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. [6]. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
— Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains, p. 13
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 MrToad.
Kenneth Grahame— 1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.10.
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
— 1937 Speech,York, 4 Nov.
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.
william hazlitt— 1821Table Talk, vol.1,'The Ignorance of the Learned'.
I can't tell who's leadingit's either Oxford or Cambridge.
— 1949 Radio commentary on the Boat Race, when the engine of Snagge's launch broke down. Quoted in C Dodd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (1983), ch.14.
David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.
gordon brown— Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary, Philip Webster, "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite", The Times, 26 May 2000, p. 1.
— Speech at a Trade Union Congress meeting, 25 May 2000.
Are ye too changed, ye hills? See, ’tis no foot of unfamiliar men> Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays! Here came I often, often, in old days; Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then.
Matthew Arnold— St. 1. (Thyrsis (1866))
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
max beerbohm— More, “Going Back to School” (1899)
Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.
max beerbohm— Ch. VII (Zuleika Dobson (1911))
[Veblenian institutionalism was] part of a much larger movement of dissent, that includes London School Institutionalists, Oxford Antimarginalists and the German Historical School (especially its second generation.
kenneth boulding— Boulding (1957) "A New Look at Institutionalism". In: The American Economic Review Vol 47, no.2, p.3 as cited in: Klimina, Anna, (2008) "On misuse of the term “institutionalist” in the analysis of Russian academic economics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the case of Michail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919)" Economics Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 2 pp. 2
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— Ch. 10 (The Reluctant Dragon)
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all the colleges I mean like an opera.
William Butler Yeats— Letter to Katharine Tynan (25 August 1888)
How did it happen that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, thirty years of age, lecturer on geometry at Christ Church, Oxford, hitherto remarkable chiefly for his precision, on a single July afternoon, while rowing up the Isis with a brother don and three little girls, parthenogenetically gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time?
— Page 23 (The Life of Lewis Carroll (1962))
Grosseteste was deeply concerned with the detailed investigation of natural phenomena. It was the inspiration of this attitude of mind, together with Grosseteste's emphasis on the importance of mathematics, that was perhaps his chief legacy to thinkers in fourteenth-century Oxford who were developing the beginnings of a mathematical physics.
— Neil Lewis, "Robert Grosseteste" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007, 2013)
Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.
— Karl Baedeker Baedeker's Great Britain (1887), "From London to Oxford"
Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave Oxford by the next town drain. (Wasted two whole terms, Missed all my History lectures, caught Lighting a fire, and by the next down train...respectively)
— Attributed to Spooner (Cohen & Cohen, [1960] 1979)
[Logistics is] the detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies", and the Oxford Dictionary on-line defines it as "the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation"
— Lemma "Logistics" at New Oxford American Dictionary, accessed May 14, 2014.
What a monstrous thing that a University should teach journalism! I thought that was only done at Oxford. This respect for the filthy multitude is ruining civilisation.
— Bertrand Russell, in a letter to Lucy Martin Donnely (July 6, 1902).
And that sweet City with her dreaming spires She needs not June for beauty's heightening [Describing the view of Oxford from Boars Hill]
Matthew Arnold— Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, Preface, 1865. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. [2]. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.
Karl Baedeker— Karl Baedeker, Great Britain (1887) Route 30 "From London to Oxford". Knowles, Elizabeth. "Karl Baedeker". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. [3]. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
The nonsense which was knocked out of [undergraduates] at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
max beerbohm— Max Beerbohm, More (1899) "Going Back to School". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 37. ISBN 019211560X.
At Oxford, as you know, we follow the Cambridge lead, sometimes with uncertain steps.
— Benjamin Jowett, Letter to Professor Marshall, 5 January 1886. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 285. ISBN 019211560X.
I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The grey spires of Oxford Against a pearl-grey sky; My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.
— Cardinal Newman, History of My Religious Opinions from 1841 to 1845. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 361. ISBN 019211560X.
I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge. [Commentary on the 1949 Boat Race, between Oxford and Cambridge...]
— John Snagge. C. Dodd "Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race" (1983). Knowles, Elizabeth, ed (2008). "Snagge, John". Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Oxford University Press. [12]. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
The King, observing with judicious eyes The state of both his universities, To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why? That learned body wanted loyalty; To Cambridge books, as very well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.
— Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, The Observer, 2 November 1980. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. [15]. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
