Magdalen's Quotes

#1. O Godhead of glory and anguish!
O Christ shone through Magdalen's tears!
Thy sons on the universe languish
In iron bands strong as the spheres;
With virtue Thy likeness we cover,
With priestcraft we mock at Thy power,
And the meanest on earth is a lover,
As vile as a flower.

Aleister Crowley

#2. She put the Trust into her sister's hand. Magdalen took it from her mechanically. "You!" she said, looking at her sister with the remembrance of all that she had vainly ventured, of all that she had vainly suffered, at St. Crux - "you have found it!

Wilkie Collins

#3. Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus

Garrison Keillor

#4. At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

Tim Hunt

#5. Harry Mount hints at the possibility that I was admitted to Magdalen in 1960 because my father had been senior scholar there a quarter of a century earlier. I was, in fact, the winner of an open scholarship; Mr Mount should learn the difference between genetics and nepotism.

Michael Beloff

#6. Weak or strong, everyone falls at least a thousand times throughout their life. It is in what they learn from their fall and how steady they become that you recognize the strongest of all." -Grandma (Magdalen)

Lydhia Marie

#7. Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

Scott Adams

#8. Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. We must cultivate our heads. But nurture our hearts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Well, quite softly, one day following another, a spring on a winter, and an autumn after a summer, this wore away, piece by piece, crumb by crumb; it passed away, it is gone, I should say it has sunk; for something always remains at the bottom as one would say - a weight here, at one's heart.

Gustave Flaubert

#11. You can't be happy, taking away something I've worked on all my life to do and help my teammates and help my defense, ... It's just part of me, playing the puck. So, definitely, you can't be happy.

Martin Brodeur

#12. What can we not endure,
When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?

Magdalen Nabb

#13. To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

Edward Gibbon

#14. Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

James MacDonald

#15. It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced.

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. A good lawyer knows the law. A great lawyer knows the judge.

Magdalen Braden

#17. Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.

Magdalen Nabb