Oxford Quotes

I’m an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense.

My school was a state school in Leeds and the headmaster usually sent students to Leeds University but he didn’t normally send them to Oxford or Cambridge.

But the headmaster happened to have been to Cambridge and decided to try and push some of us towards Oxford and Cambridge.

In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950’s but it really lost out to our love affair with the car.

just look at Oxford and Cambridge.

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.

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.

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.