Maurice Bowra

“Frances Wilson, "The Sunday Times Christmas books: biography", The Times Literary Supplement (December 2009)”

“Atticus (Roland White), The Sunday Times (11 November 2018)”

“Leslie Mitchell, Maurice Bowra: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)”

“Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ed. Maurice Bowra: A Celebration (London: Olympic Marketing Corp., 1974)”

“Elisabeth Knowles, "Maurice Bowra", Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 7th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2009)”

“Christopher Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties (London: Heinemann, 1976)”

“Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)”

“Justin Cartwright, "Oxford: Does Brideshead still exist?", Daily Telegraph (2 March 2008)”

“G. W. Bowersock, "Unquiet Flows the Don" [review of Mitchell (2009)], The New Republic (5 October 2009)”

“Without you, Heaven would be too dull to bear,And Hell would not be Hell if you are there.”

“I don't know about you, gentlemen, but in Oxford I, at least, am known by my face.”

“Buggers can't be choosers”

“Can't help you. Pity. Slept with him once—should have asked him then.”

“Where there's death, there's hope.”

“Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times”

“Splendid couple—slept with both of them.”

“Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.”

“I'm a man more dined against than dining.”