I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. William Butler Yeats
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
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. George Santayana
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. Anthony Trollope
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. Robertson Davies
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. Max Beerbohm
That sweet city with her dreaming spires. Matthew Arnold