Oxford Quotes

• Time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage - I'm not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I'd normally say because I've got a meeting with them soon - if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can't get the time back.

  

  Kanye West
  • Time
  • Luxury
  • Airports

• What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Writing
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge

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

  

  Imran Khan
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Fact

• I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Time
  • College

• People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Oxford
  • Penetrating
  • Damp

• Well that's what Andy wore to bed. You know, the oxford button-down Brooks Brothers shirt that he's been wearing all day and his big long socks. He'd just take off his jeans and his boots and go to bed. Then he'd change into a fresh ensemble after he had breakfast the next morning.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Long
  • Morning
  • Breakfast

• 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
  • College
  • London
  • Stagecoaches

• Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.

  

  Kanye West
  • Food
  • Car
  • Sweaters

• I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

  

  Leonard Alfred George Strong
  • Medical
  • Number
  • Permission

• We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs.

  

  Kanye West
  • Race
  • Oxford
  • Ants

• I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Bible

• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  

  Kanye West
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Ego

• Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Oxford
  • Young Men
  • Dangerous Place

• The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

  

  William Browne
  • Learning
  • Argument
  • University

• A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Son
  • Luck
  • Self-Made

• I was at this dinner for Rhodes Scholars. And we were in the Rhodes mansion, which is this fancy mansion on the Oxford campus. And I remember I looked up in the rotunda, and I saw that etched into the marble were the names of Rhodes Scholars who had left Oxford, and had fought and died in World War II.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • I Remember
  • World War II
  • Mansion

• 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
  • People
  • Place
  • Sort

• When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.

  

  Eve Best
  • Left
  • Oxford
  • Unsure

• I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

  

  Winifred Mary Letts
  • Heart
  • Passing
  • Pearls

• Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Society
  • University
  • Oxford

• I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'

  

  Harry Lloyd
  • People
  • School
  • Eton