The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University", or simply "Oxford"), located in the English city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world, with teaching there as far back as the 11th century. It is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions.
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- And that sweet City with her dreaming spires
- She needs not June for beauty's heightening
- [Describing the view of Oxford from Boars Hill]
- Matthew Arnold, Thyrsis (1866) l. 19. Ratcliffe, Susan, ed (2008). "Arnold, Matthew". Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
- Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, Preface, 1865. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. . Retrieved 3 December 2009.
- Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.
- Karl Baedeker, Great Britain (1887) Route 30 "From London to Oxford". Knowles, Elizabeth. "Karl Baedeker". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- The nonsense which was knocked out of [boys] at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
- Max Beerbohm, More (1899) "Going Back to School". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 37. ISBN 019211560X.
- I was not unpopular [at school]... It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
- Max Beerbohm, More (1899) "Going Back to School". Knowles, Elizabeth. "Max Beerbohm". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse,
- For Tories own no argument but force:
- With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent,
- For Whigs admit no force but argument.
- If I had to do literary work of an absorbing character, Oxford is the last place in which I should attempt to do it.
- Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Letter to William Sanday, 30 May 1900; Brock and Curthoys (ed.) History of the University of Oxford (2000) vol. 7, pt. 2, ch. 25. Knowles, Elizabeth. "Lord Salisbury". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and, gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!
- John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge, G. W. E. Russell, "Collections and Recollections", chapter 29. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 155. ISBN 019211560X.
- [Blackadder is proving that Nurse Mary is a German spy]
- Captain Blackadder: And then the final irrefutable proof. Remember you mentioned a clever boyfriend?
- Nurse Mary: Yes?
- Blackadder: Well, I leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked you whether he had been to one of the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, Hull.
- Mary: Well?
- Blackadder: What you didn't spot is that only two of those are great universities.
- Mary: You swine!
- General Melchett: That's right. Oxford's a complete dump!
- Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, "General Hospital" from Blackadder Goes Forth. "Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty" (1998) Michael Joseph. p. 433. ISBN 0718143728.
- I'm privileg'd to be very impertinent, being an Oxonian.
- George Farquhar, Sir Harry Wildair, Act II scene I. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 210. ISBN 019211560X.
- To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.
- Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life (1796) ch. 3. Knowles, Elizabeth. "Edward Gibbon". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- The clever men at 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, The Wind in the Willows (1908) Chapter 10. Ratcliffe, Susan, ed (2008). "Grahame, Kenneth". Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
- William Hazlitt, Table Talk vol. 1 (1821) "The Ignorance of the Learned". Knowles, Elizabeth. "William Hazlitt". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.
- Samuel Johnson, Life of Johnson, volume 2 p. 68 (Autumn, 1769). Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 275. ISBN 019211560X.
- At Oxford, as you know, we follow the Cambridge lead, sometimes with uncertain steps.
- Benjamin Jowett, Letter to Professor Marshall, 5 January 1886. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 285. ISBN 019211560X.
- I saw the spires of Oxford
- As I was passing by,
- The grey spires of Oxford
- Against a pearl-grey sky;
- My heart was with the Oxford men
- Who went abroad to die.
- I remember an acquaintance saying to me that "the Oriel Common Room stank of logic".
- Cardinal Newman, History of My Religious Opinions from 1841 to 1845. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. 1991. p. 361. ISBN 019211560X.
- Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
- Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains, p. 13
- Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Act 2, p. 50. W.F. Bynum & Roy Porter eds. (2006). "Shaw, George Bernard". The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- I can't see who's in the lead but it's either Oxford or Cambridge. [Commentary on the 1949 Boat Race, between Oxford and Cambridge...]
- John Snagge. C. Dodd "Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race" (1983). Knowles, Elizabeth, ed (2008). "Snagge, John". Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
- Christina Stead, House of All Nations (1938) "Credo". Knowles, Elizabeth. "Christina Stead". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- The King, observing with judicious eyes
- The state of both his universities,
- To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why?
- That learned body wanted loyalty;
- To Cambridge books, as very well discerning
- How much that loyal body wanted learning.
- Joseph Trapp, lines written on George I's donation of the Bishop of Ely's Library to the University of Cambridge. (See above, under William Browne, for a reply). Knowles, Elizabeth. "Joseph Trapp". Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
- Oxford is, and always has been, full of cliques, full of factions, and full of a particular non-social snobbiness.
- Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, The Observer, 2 November 1980. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. . Retrieved 3 December 2009.
- Being published by the Oxford University Press is rather like being married to a duchess: the honour is almost greater than the pleasure.
- G. M. Young. Rupert Hart-Davis, letter to George Lyttelton, 29 April 1956. Knowles, Elizabeth, ed (2008). "Young, G. M.". Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Oxford University Press. . Retrieved 2 December 2009.
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