#oxford

My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#boy #clever #could #express #far

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! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

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

— Frank Scott

#else #me #oxford #scepticism #something

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

#civilian #down #during #ended #finally

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #oxford

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

— John Aubrey

#journey #oxford #part #silver #some

I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939. ↗

— Martin Ryle

#educated #graduated #i #oxford #where

The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended up laughing. Even when the subject matter was intense or macabre, Henry’s sick and twisted and often politically incorrect sense of humor was infectious…Gloria laughed more in these first weeks at Oxford then she remembered laughing almost anywhere. ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#oxford-messed-up #poetry #van-morrison #family

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

— Lionel Blue

#fell #i #literally #oxford #quakers

Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and cease The Spirit’s work—to hunger and aspire: Lest we forget that we were born divine, Now tangled in red battle’s animal net, Murder the work and lust the anodyne, Pains of the beast ‘gainst bestial solace set. But this shall never be: to us remains One city that has nothing of the beast, That was not built for gross, material gains, Sharp, wolfish power or empire’s glutted feast. We are not wholly brute. To us remains A clean, sweet city lulled by ancient streams, A place of visions and of loosening chains, A refuge of the elect, a tower of dreams. She was not builded out of common stone But out of all men’s yearning and all prayer That she might live, eternally our own, The Spirit’s stronghold—barred against despair. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#oxford #poem #dreams