Schoolboy Quotes

40 quotes by 37 authors

[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care… — Henry Adams
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose… — Charles Baudelaire
He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in… — Roland Huntford
The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and… — Dawna Markova
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days… — Gaston Bachelard
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy — Charles Dickens
Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That… — James Stockdale
As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy. — Ricky Hatton
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask… — Henry David Thoreau
Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl. — Cleveland Amory
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who… — Geoffrey Fisher
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry… — E. C. Bentley
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. — Chris Martin
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time… — Stephen Daldry
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. — Henry Adams
I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I… — John Keats
Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm. — Ernie Harwell
I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a… — Damian Lewis
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. — Ernest Renan

Who Wrote These Schoolboy Quotes

37 authors contributed a total of 40 Schoolboy Quotes, led by these top contributors: