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London was beginning to illuminate herself against the night. Electric lights sizzled and jagged in the main thoroughfares, gas-lamps in the side streets glimmered a canary gold or green. The sky was a crimson battlefield of spring, but London was not afraid. Her smoke mitigated the splendour, and the clouds down Oxford Street were a delicately painted ceiling, which adorned while it did not distract. E. M. Forster
Johnson, who defines poetry as 'metrical composition', defines poet as 'An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure'. We can gauge how far we have traveled by comparing this with the Shorter Oxford Dictionary which, after a definition very like Johnson's, feels obligated to add 'A writer in verse (or sometimes in elevated prose) distinguished by imaginative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression'. C. S. Lewis
But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. Oscar Wilde
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.''I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul. Evelyn Waugh
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses A. J. Jacobs
Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was. He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish. Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself. Arundhati Roy
E. M. Forster quote: "At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has..."
At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists. E. M. Forster
Philip Pullman quote: "A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in"
A graduate of Oxford University with a degree in Philip Pullman
In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred. Dan Brown
I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed. Samantha Morton
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
In Oxford before the war, I had, with this interest in mind, written a short textbook entitled, An Introduction to Economic Analysis and Policy. It was now my intention to rewrite this work. James Meade
James Meade quote: "From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at..."
From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford. James Meade
The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad. Kenneth Grahame
Paul Getty quote: "What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage..."
What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. Paul Getty

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