Oxford Quotes
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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.
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.
Anthony Trollope— Ch. 33 (Phineas Redux (1874))
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.
[At school] I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
— 1899 More,'Going Back To School'.
The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, ForTories own no argument but force; With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
william browne— Literary Anecdotes.
So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.
john dryden— 1673 'Prologue to the University of Oxon?at the Acting of The Silent Woman'.
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.
On the side of physics, there were a few key figures in Oxford who realized, in all probability unlike the majority of their colleagues in the physics department, that physics without interpretation is only part of the story, and that theories like quantum mechanics need careful foundational reflection.
harvey brown— Physics and Philiosophy in Oxford: a prosperous example of interdisciplinarity, in Innovation and interdisciplinarity in the university. EDIPUCRS. 2007. p. 304. ISBN 8-574-30677-0.
Jowett, 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 Jowett— H. H. Asquith, letter to Lady Horner, October 26, 1891, quoted in Roy Jenkins Asquith (1964) p. 22.
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)
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?
florence becker lennon— 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"
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
— Samuel Butler, in The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition, ReadHowYouWant.com, 28 January 2008, p.42
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.
— Nancy Pearcey, in America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat, The Pearcey Report, 12 November 2010
No 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.
— Horace Smith, in The Tin Trumpet: Or, Heads and Tails, for the Wise and Waggish, Volume 2, Whittaker & Company, 1836, p.130
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.
I was not unpopular [at school]... It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
max beerbohm— Max Beerbohm, More (1899) "Going Back to School". Knowles, Elizabeth. "Max Beerbohm". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. [4]. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and, gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!
— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, G. W. E. Russell, "Collections and Recollections", chapter 29. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 155. 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.
Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure.
— G. M. Young. Rupert Hart-Davis, letter to George Lyttelton, 29 April 1956. Knowles, Elizabeth, ed (2008). "Young, G. M.". Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Oxford University Press. [16]. Retrieved 2 December 2009.
