Headmaster Quote by R.K. Narayan

“If he(Mani) were Swaminathan, he would have closed the whole incident at the beginning by hurling an ink-bottle, if nothing bigger was available, at…

— R.K. Narayan

There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked…

— Auberon Waugh

“In Enlad," said Arren after a while, "we have a story about the boy whose schoolmaster was a stone:' "Aye?... What did he learn?"…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Why did the boy bring a ladder to school?”

— Jim Hogan

“Cauthon lives," Arganda said. "And that's bloody amazing, considering that someone blew up his command post, set fire to his tenet, killed a bunch…

— Robert Jordan

“anyone before! Excited about his trip to Bombay, Ramkrishna trotted alongside his mama to the railway station. He patted the bundle of his life’s…

— Neelima Dalmia Adhar

“The revenue arising from his school was small, and would have been scarcely sufficient to furnish him with daily bread, for he was a…

— Washington Irving

“It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into…

— Franz Kafka

“School began in earnest next day. A profound impression was made upon me, I remember, by the roar of voices in the schoolroom suddenly…

— Charles Dickens

“Good Friday. When I was young we had to observe a moment of silence at three o’clock to think about poor Jesus. If in…

— Hendrik Groen

“his grandmother walking the lane. He will be frightened, she thought. It may be that he has returned and is frightened. He is only…

— Hannah Kent

“Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staffroom fire and got up next morning to…

— J.K. Rowling