Top 100 Schoolboy Quotes
#1. A letter Lewis wrote reveals an 18-year-old with the energy of a schoolboy and the tastes of an octogenarian.
Philip Zaleski
#2. When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy
Charles Dickens
#4. 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
#5. I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
Imtiaz Ali
#6. You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'.
C.S. Lewis
#7. Let me tell you a secret, a tremendous and wonderful secret. Let me share with you something so valuable that any schoolboy would gladly trade his most treasured procession to find out what I shall tell you.
Maxwell Grantly
#8. Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion or not.
Milan Kundera
#9. 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
#10. I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#11. As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Gore Vidal
#12. He continues to give more than 100 per cent and his schoolboy-like enthusiasm for the game is something I envy and admire. For the team he is the best available coaching manual.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
#13. She talks like she thinks I'm a schoolboy with fantasies of heroes who get the girl and ride off into the sunset. What kind of world does she think I grew up in?
Kendare Blake
#14. At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream ... I would never be a schoolboy again.
King Hussein
#15. Page 112 The Honorable Schoolboy
He was attended this morning by his wife, a former Bible School teacher from Borneo, a dried- out shrew in bobbed hair and ankle socks who could spot a sin before it was committed.
John Le Carre
#16. 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
#17. Ah, there's the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy.
Lisa Kleypas
#18. Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
To tell what every schoolboy knows.
Jonathan Swift
#19. For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature, and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my schoolboy days.
Thomas De Quincey
#20. I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window ...
William Butler Yeats
#21. It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,
That all sin is divided into two parts.
One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very
important
Ogden Nash
#22. There wasn't a schoolboy on the planet - or a man, for that matter - who would dare disturb a female locked into a WC. I knew that for a fact.
Alan Bradley
#23. Page 56 The Honorable Schoolboy
Czarist imperialist running dogs drank tasteless coffee with divisive, deviationist, chauvinist, Stalinists and were proud of it.
John Le Carre
#24. I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."
Tom Hardy
#25. 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 the schoolboy on his way to school. (Act 2, scene 2)
William Shakespeare
#26. Beauty if you keep that up, I am goin' to embarrass myself like a schoolboy
Shyloh Morgan
#27. Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#28. N MY early boyhood I was enraptured by the great fairytale illustrators of the period: Arthur Rackham, Edmond Dulac, Kay Nielsen. As a schoolboy, I was to discover Aubrey Beardsley, and I was extremely fond of an edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with most imaginative drawings by Heath Robinson,
John Gielgud
#29. 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
#30. The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
#31. Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
Seamus Heaney
#32. the schoolboy had something of the stolid air of a young duke doing the grand tour, while his elderly relative was reduced to the position of a courier, who nevertheless had to pay for everything like a patron.
G.K. Chesterton
#34. 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
#35. 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 of pox.
Charles Baudelaire
#37. He was the cleanest-cut comic-book schoolboy hero imaginable.
Joanne Harris
#38. 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
#39. 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 class at St. Paul's School.
E.C. Bentley
#40. He made the mistake of imagining that his possessions were a measure of his own worth, and strutted and crowed, parading his things like a schoolboy with a champion catapult.
John Banville
#41. Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.
Thomas A. Edison
#42. Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had believed in the possibility of a substitute. But there was a time when I had tried to find a substitute, and it hadn't worked.
Graham Greene
#43. Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
Henry Adams
#44. The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
Tom Stoppard
#45. As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.
Ricky Hatton
#46. The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
Joseph Addison
#47. I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!
Charles Dickens
#48. Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
Alan Furst
#49. 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 dreams.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#50. 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
#51. Schoolboy, a teenager, with a teenager's innocence and
Anita Shreve
#52. 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
#53. 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 bird-watching, and when the snow or the rain kept me indoors, I read his bird books and learned about evolution.
James D. Watson
#54. Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.
Ben Aaronovitch
#55. There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
C.S. Lewis
#56. Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.
Robert Townsend
#57. Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.
John Tyler Bonner
#58. Isherwood received bags of fan mail, far more than Tennessee Williams had for Memoirs. There was the sexual and jokey (a fifteen-year-old English schoolboy sent his photo and wrote on the back, "My tits are on fire").
Christopher Bram
#59. 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 boy.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#60. 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
#61. As a schoolboy I liked to draw the leaders of the world proletariat - especially Marx. Just start smearing an ordinary splotch of ink around and you've already got a resemblance ...
Sergei Dovlatov
#62. You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.
Oscar Wilde
#63. Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
Robert A. Burton
#64. I desperately want to make love to a schoolboy.
Lloyd
#65. 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
#66. 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. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.
Vinnie Jones
#67. I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible.
Daphne Du Maurier
#68. Mexican marijuana, which he called the schoolboy's consolation.
James Purdy
#69. I was lured into a navvy's cottage tonight!" - Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to his Father.
Eric Bishop-Potter
#70. That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out.
Bernard Cornwell
#71. Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which every schoolboy has encountered before he's in long pants.
Paul La Farge
#72. As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied.
Simon Schama
#73. I feel as cross as a dog," he muttered, clenching his fists. "I hate and despise myself! My God! like some depraved schoolboy, I am making love to another man's wife, writing idiotic letters,
Anton Chekhov
#74. 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
know ain't so'.
Mark Twain
#76. Why Banning Miller, what a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a schoolboy's wink to get you out of it again.
Jane Espenson
#77. His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation.
Sapphire Phelan
#78. 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
#79. A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.
C.S. Lewis
#80. 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
#81. A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
Lord Byron
#82. It then occurred to him that he had never had a better time. He felt fifty years younger. He also felt like a schoolboy who had just violated the body of his first girl friend.Well! Heck! When had he ever eaten a vulva?[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#83. I smoke weed.It's not an addiction. It's something I wanna do. It's not smart though. It's not good for my body but I'm doing it. I'm not telling people to do it.
Schoolboy Q
#84. I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.
Schoolboy Q
#85. I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.
Schoolboy Q
#86. I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.
Schoolboy Q
#87. The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.
Schoolboy Q
#88. All these niggas that have good music have longevity.
Schoolboy Q
#89. When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much.
Schoolboy Q
#90. You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.
Schoolboy Q
#91. I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones.
Schoolboy Q
#92. I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.
Schoolboy Q
#93. I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.
Schoolboy Q
#94. I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.
Schoolboy Q
#95. The streets helps you a lot in music, cause it let's you know that you can't trust nobody and that nobody's gonna wait for you. You can't just sit there with dope in your pocket and think that people are gonna come to you. You gotta put the product out there.
Schoolboy Q
#96. I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
Schoolboy Q
#97. If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record.
Schoolboy Q
#98. I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma say here [then] I put effects on my voice. Why not? I wrote it. Why not show the talent? Why be scared? That's why I hate certain fans who hate cause it's not like raw hip-hop, like boom bap.
Schoolboy Q
#99. I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one.
Schoolboy Q
#100. Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.
Schoolboy Q
