Schoolboy Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.

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.

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.

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