Top Oxford Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Oxford quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Barbara Pym
There are no sick people in North Oxford. They are either dead or alive. It's sometimes difficult to tell the difference, that's all.
- Barbara Pym
Collection: Oxford
Image of Charles Finch
When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.
- Charles Finch
Collection: Oxford
Image of Johnny Carson
An oxymoron? What's that? A moron who studies at Oxford?
- Johnny Carson
Collection: Oxford
Image of Gretchen Carlson
If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.
- Gretchen Carlson
Collection: Oxford
Image of Philip Green
New West End Company ensures that there is a body that can put significant investment into the West End, targeted directly to the needs of the area and particularly the customers. Great progress is being made to improve Oxford Street and make it a great destination.
- Philip Green
Collection: Oxford
Image of Philip Guedalla
I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
- Philip Guedalla
Collection: Oxford
Image of Nicole Lapin
Time is the only thing you can't buy.
- Nicole Lapin
Collection: Oxford
Image of Kate Beckinsale
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
- Kate Beckinsale
Collection: Oxford
Image of Anne Fortier
While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.
- Anne Fortier
Collection: Oxford
Image of Evelyn Waugh
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
- Evelyn Waugh
Collection: Oxford
Image of Kanye West
Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.
- Kanye West
Collection: Oxford
Image of Kanye West
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.
- Kanye West
Collection: Oxford
Image of Anthony Trollope
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
Collection: Oxford
Image of Philip Pullman
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once. He could find food, and show her how to reach Oxford, and those were powers that were useful, but he might still have been untrustworthy or cowardly. A murderer was a worthy companion. She felt as safe with him as she'd done with Iorek Byrnison the armoured bear.
- Philip Pullman
Collection: Oxford
Image of Margaret Thatcher
I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: Oxford
Image of Bill McKibben
We've been in lots of places that I suppose, by Oxford standards, would be considered illiterate, but everyone's completely conversant with the idea that here is a number, and that number is above it, and that's too high. It's not a very complicated idea.
- Bill McKibben
Collection: Oxford
Image of Mao Zedong
Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.
- Mao Zedong
Collection: Oxford
Image of William J. Clinton
Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
- William J. Clinton
Collection: Oxford
Image of Margaret Halsey
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
- Margaret Halsey
Collection: Oxford
Image of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The world surely has not another place like Oxford; it is a despair to see such a place and ever to leave it, for it would take a lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy it satisfactorily.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Collection: Oxford
Image of Henry James
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
- Henry James
Collection: Oxford
Image of Sophie Kinsella
People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance
- Sophie Kinsella
Collection: Oxford