Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

- George Santayana

I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab.

- Kris Kristofferson

Oxford has a slightly mythical rep, particularly for people who haven't been there.

- Kevin Whately

Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.

- Kevin Whately

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

- John E. Walker

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

- John Aubrey

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

- James Meade

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

- John Ortberg

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

- Imran Khan

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

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

- Anthony Trollope

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

- Geoff Dyer

I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.

- Geoff Dyer

Oxford also taught me something else - it taught me scepticism.

- Frank Scott

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

- Eve Best

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

- Emilia Fox

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

- E. M. Forster

In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.

- Donald Hall

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

- Colin Baker

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