My Lad Quotes
15 quotes by 12 authors
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
— Emily Bronte
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must.…
— A. E. Housman
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
— A. E. Housman
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Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were…
— Edgar Guest
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My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.
— Les Dawson
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Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
— John Steinbeck
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to…
— Jules Verne
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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs!…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind." "Oh, no! You think so?" "Yes." "But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with…
— Terry Pratchett
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One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
— Terry Pratchett
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When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.
— Gaelen Foley
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Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.
— Jonathan Stroud
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What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the…
— Jules Verne
Who Wrote These My Lad Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 15 My Lad Quotes as follows: