“ If any one of them deserves to be a shrine, it's Paddington. Its departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks its way through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England. ”
- Mark Wallington- Copy
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“ The clever men of 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- Copy
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“ The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ A secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time. ”
- Oliver Franks- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like. ”
- Gordon Allport- Copy
- 552
“ The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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 like an opera. ”
- William Butler Yeats- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ”
- Max Beerbohm- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. ”
- Edward F. Halifax- Copy
- 34
“ I had always imagined that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. ”
- Philip Guedalla- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Whilom ther was dwellynge at oxenford, A riche gnof, that gestes heeld to bord, And of his craft he was a carpenter. ”
- Geoffrey Chaucer- Copy
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“ The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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