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Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences. -- Alan Furst
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows. -- William Whitehead
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. -- Simon Schama
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. -- Gore Vidal
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. -- King Hussein
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. -- Ernest Renan
The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy. -- Tom Stoppard
I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies. -- Imtiaz Ali
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As I get older, I find myself getting angrier and angrier. Doubtless, change itself, not to mention physical decline and inevitable petty tragedies of disappointed expectations, would have made for resentment in any event; but I used to be a passive schoolboy, my negative impulses turned obediently inward. -- William T. Vollmann
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
Baseball cannot be learned as a trade. It begins with the sport of the schoolboy, and though it may end in the professional, I am sure there is not a single one of these who learned the game with the expectation of making it a business. There have been years in the life of each during which he must have ate and drank and dreamed baseball. -- John Montgomery Ward
My body is no schoolboy. -- Anne Rice
Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage. -- Terry Eagleton
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! -- Lord Byron
I desperately want to make love to a schoolboy. -- Lloyd
Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows. -- Jonathan Swift
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so."" -- Mark Twain
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end. -- Robert A. Burton
A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation. -- C. S. Lewis
Ah, thereâ??s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoolboy. -- Lisa Kleypas
As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy. -- Ricky Hatton
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. -- Henry Adams
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.... -- William Butler Yeats
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy -- Charles Dickens
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'. -- Mark Twain
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
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
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
I wasnt 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
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
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

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