Oxford Quotes

“Sometimes the students were rioting among themselves, sometimes they were rioting against outsiders, and the violence was so frequent and so vicious that almost every inch of pavement between Carfax and St. Mary’s, we are told with relish, at one time or another ran with blood.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“brawl at the Swyndlestock Tavern,”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“her supreme ability to see the other point of view.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“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.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“To Oxford sent a troop of horse, for why? That learned body wanted loyalty: To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“All change is good—whatever is, is wrong’— Then Intellect’s proud flag shall be unfurled,”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“Master of Balliol from 1870 to 1893, said that he wanted to ‘inoculate England with Balliol’.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“Aelfredus Legutn Anglia Academiae Oxon Conditor,”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“(Matthew Arnold said it was still ‘whispering the last enchantments of the Middle Ages’, but Max Beerbohm thought he must have been referring to the railway station).”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“the Bellman, the High Steward and the Summoner of Preachers.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“whether an undergraduate might own a car, you had to look under De Moribus Conformandis, paragraph 14, De Vehiculis, Add. p. 7, ante 320. (1838). Corp. Stat. p. 145. (1636). Add. p. 420. (1851). Add. p. 1964. (1960), to discover that he might not, except that ‘cum consensu Praefecti Domus suae aut ejus vicem gerentis, a Procuratoribus concessa sit’.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“there is no person or body in Oxford’, it was authoritatively observed in 1931, ‘competent to declare what the functions of the University are’.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“and sometimes seems to double back upon itself; but then this University has never set out to make itself clear.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“the Sheldonian Theatre, which was, when the young Christopher Wren built it, as functionally daring as the London and North Western railway station”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“bloody battles between Town and Gown, quarrels between northerners and southerners, assaults upon the Jews, lawsuits,”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“thrown out with all other foreign students during a fit of French xenophobia in 1167.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“Nobody really knows how the University of Oxford began, and nobody can put a date to it. Some think its first scholars were English refugees from the University of Paris, thrown out with all other foreign students during a fit of French xenophobia in 1167.”
― Jan Morris, Oxford

“The mathematical devices <, > and ∞ were all invented here,”
― Jan Morris, Oxford