Oxonian Quotes

#1. Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.

Oscar Wilde

#2. I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

Sarah Moss

#3. He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.

John Cleese

#4. If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks,
Making us pry into ourselves so, near,
Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books,
Or all the learned schools that ever were.

Sir John Davies

#5. An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

Earl Wilson

#6. Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?

Dan Brown

#7. My images are not images of reality, but show a kind of second reality, the image of the image.

Thomas Ruff

#8. The IMF was a more formal and less fun place to work than Treasury. The meetings were endless, with crushing bureaucracy, an intrusive and fractious executive board, an appalling amount of paper, and a lot of factional conflict among various fiefdoms.

Timothy F. Geithner