Quotes about Oxford

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See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind — Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Ol — Andrea Kayne Kaufman, Oxford Messed Up
Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Ol — Andrea Kayne Kaufman, Oxford Messed Up
The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any — Andrea Kayne Kaufman, Oxford Messed Up
The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any — Andrea Kayne Kaufman, Oxford Messed Up
The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long — Richard Rhodes, Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World
The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long — Richard Rhodes, Visions of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines Systems and the Human World
Though his public teaching lasted only three years, it has been scrutinized by scholars in every science—among them theo — Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason to Hope, a Message to Share
Though his public teaching lasted only three years, it has been scrutinized by scholars in every science—among them theo — Jon Morrison, Clear Minds & Dirty Feet: A Reason to Hope, a Message to Share
I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an — Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an — Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
Mrs Hargreaves liked her job and she liked the Hoopers. As far as she was concerned there was far too much twaddle being — Edward Cowling
Mrs Hargreaves liked her job and she liked the Hoopers. As far as she was concerned there was far too much twaddle being — Edward Cowling
None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. — Edmund Crispin
None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. — Edmund Crispin
Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well be — John Fowles
Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well be — John Fowles
Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed — Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed — Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
Arrive before your Husband. Not that I canSee quite what good arriving first will do;But still arrive before him. When h — Ovid, The Love Poems
Arrive before your Husband. Not that I canSee quite what good arriving first will do;But still arrive before him. When h — Ovid, The Love Poems
The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is "youniversity". YOU got the lectu — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is "youniversity". YOU got the lectu — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The truth was that I didn't know my own mind. Just as you might move into a house and in the scatterbrained days of unpa — Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments
The truth was that I didn't know my own mind. Just as you might move into a house and in the scatterbrained days of unpa — Charles Finch, The Last Enchantments
Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of j — William Hazlitt
Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air about it, resonant of j — William Hazlitt
Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hop — Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hop — Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, someth — Charles Finch, The September Society
The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, someth — Charles Finch, The September Society
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. — Imran Khan
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life. — Imran Khan