Previous 'Quotes of the Week'This page is dedicated to recording the testimony of great men and women - many of whom have passed through the Dark Side themselves - that clearly proves what an 'orrible place Oxford ''University'' is. And yes, these are all bona fide. Don't believe me? Then just go to Oxford, then they'll all seem quite plausible. Quote 9: "WE WON" "...in the university of Oxford the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching." "(Blackadder thinks Nurse Mary is a German spy): "Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the fact that they are no longer at school ... The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford ..."
"Very nice place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place."
"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."
"I'm privileg'd to be very impertinent, being an Oxonian."
"Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."
"You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or the heads of colleges, of that famous university."
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