"Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"

"Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recomme…"

"The nonsense which was knocked out of [boys] at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge."

"I was not unpopular [at school]... It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

"The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse,"

"I am constantly filled with admiration at this – at the way you can wander through a town like Oxford and in the spac…"

"If I had to do literary work of an absorbing character, Oxford is the last place in which I should attempt to do it."

"I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and, gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!"

"[Blackadder is proving that Nurse Mary is a German spy]"

"Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enc…"