The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.
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.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.
I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will say, "I'm a comedian" - the guy selling you the jeans. The desire to be a comedian is weird. I found it weird myself to want to be one; I was a schoolboy when I wanted to be one but I didn't know how to do it. That was 50 years ago, so times have changed greatly. There seems to be a long line of people desperate to do it and most of them are quite good.
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.
It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so. ""
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
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.
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.
My body is no schoolboy.
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.
Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.
I am light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.
