Schoolboy Quotes
40 quotes by 36 authors
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The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
— Tom Stoppard
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
— Lisa Kleypas
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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
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It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
— Simon Schama
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
— Imtiaz Ali
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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
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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
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Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
— Unknown Author
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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
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At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
— King Hussein
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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
Who Wrote These Schoolboy Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 40 Schoolboy Quotes, led by these top contributors: