The Story of a Bad Boy Quotes

“So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

“..We shall get on famously...and be capital friends forever.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

“It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

“Whenever a new scholar came to out school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: 'My name's Tom Bailey: what's your name?' If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't I would turn on my heel, for I was particular in this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly afronts to my ear; while Lapgdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passing words to my confidence and esteem.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

“Then the ship gave sudden lurches that made it a matter of uncertainty whether one was going to put his fork in his mouth or into his eye.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

“I hope he and she that was Miss Wang Wang are very happy together, sitting cross-legged over dimenitive cups of tea in a sky-blue tower hung with bells.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy

“..Fell over the prostrate steersman, and there we all lay in a heep, two or three of us quite picturesque with the nosebleed.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy