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 quinceyUndergraduates 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.
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
john drydenThe Rhine is not more impassable than the Nile or Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of theThames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pupils might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctityand truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
Edward GibbonThe 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 GrahameJowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.
Benjamin JowettAnyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
laura penny[Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
Matthew ArnoldI was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
max beerbohmHow 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?
florence becker lennonWhat 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 russellGladstone will soon have it all his own way; and, whenever he gets my place, we shall have strange doings...He is a dangerous man, keep him in Oxford, and he is partially muzzled; but send him elsewhere, and he will run wild.
temple, henry, 3rd viscount palmerstonNo wonder that Oxford and Cambridge profound, In learning and science so greatly abound; Since some carry thither a little each day, And we meet with so few who bring any away.
I shall be as tender of the privileges of the University of Oxford as any man living, having the greatest veneration for that learned body.
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)
[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"
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.
I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and, gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!
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 GibbonThe 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!
william hazlittAt Oxford, as you know, we follow the Cambridge lead, sometimes with uncertain steps.
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.