Schoolboy Quotes

40 quotes by 36 authors

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. — Tom Stoppard
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him… — William Makepeace Thackeray
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you… — Mark Twain
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as… — William Shakespeare
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ah, thereâ€™s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy. — Lisa Kleypas
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school… — Mark Twain
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" — Mark Twain
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. — Benjamin Disraeli
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years.… — Vinnie Jones
I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for… — James D. Watson
Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on… — John Tyler Bonner
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies. — Imtiaz Ali
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed… — William T. Vollmann
Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am… — John Montgomery Ward
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. — Unknown Author
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to… — Will McDonough
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. — King Hussein
The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman,… — Sydney Smith

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