Compact Oxford English

Famous quotes containing the words compact, oxford and/or english:

    “What compact mean you to have with us?
    Will you be pricked in number of our friends,
    Or shall we on, and not depend on you?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
    —Robertson Davies (b. 1913)

    “To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
    —Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. “Immigrating to the U.S.,” student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.