Quotes about boys

"Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases."

Carroll, Lewis on boys   

"Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on boys   

"I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys."

Dickens, Charles on boys   

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."

Haldane, John B. S. on boys
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"Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people."

Lamb, Charles on boys   

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"Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe."

Miller, Henry on boys   

"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."

Thackeray, William M. on boys   

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"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."

Twain, Mark on boys