Oxford Quotes

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

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.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.