Schoolboy Quotes

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 that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Money, Kindness, Him

The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard

Happy, Fact, Loved

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan

Life, Familiar, Truths

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 success at school.
Damian Lewis

Success, School, Successful

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

Dad, Baseball, Playing

There's something very strange about Sherlock Holmes, especially if you're an English schoolboy. When you read the stories, they stay with you forever.
Anthony Horowitz

Strange, Read, Stay

I wasn't a model schoolboy. Of course, I was forced to sit through Shakespeare and I really got into some of it, though it depended on who was reading it out.
Rufus Sewell

Through, Reading, Though

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 in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.
Stephen Daldry

Work, Time, History

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.
James Stockdale

Business, Mean, Felt

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 graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
Will McDonough

Sports, Job, Year

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 has decided not to enter the bull ring.
Geoffrey Fisher

Feelings, Getting, Seriously

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
King Hussein

End, Dream, Again

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
William Whitehead

Old, Knows, Tale

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