#schoolboy

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

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#bullies #school #schoolboys #bullying

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

#decided #enter #feelings #getting #holidays

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

#bestowed #better #blesses #days #gives

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

— Ernest Renan

#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

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 #felt #having #helpless #i

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. ↗

— William Whitehead

#knows #old #schoolboy #tale #which

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

#baseball #catch #dad #farm #first

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

— King Hussein

#dream #end #i #knew #never

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. ↗