Good Boy Quotes

• A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Son, Boys

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories”, p.441, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Women like bad boys…Being a good boy never worked for me.

  Jude Law

  Boys, Bad Boy

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• I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

  Rik Mayall

  Boys, Proud, Proud Of Myself

  TV Times, January 19-25, 1991.

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• I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored.

  Katy Perry

  Boys, Bored, Sometimes

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• It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

  Nora Roberts

  Boys, Men, Good Man

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.82, Penguin

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• Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Nice, Boys

  "Five Questions with Vanessa Anne Hudgens". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 31, 2007.

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• It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Used, Hotel

  Mark Twain (1984). “The Innocents Abroad ; Roughing it”, p.491, Library of America

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• He looks like the good boy he's never been.

  Holly Black

  Boys, Looks

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

  Harold Pinter

  Writing, Independent, Boys

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

  Diogenes

  Men, Boys, Good Man

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

  Tommy Chong

  Boys, Serious, Crime

  "Cheech and Chong: Still Smokin'". Interview with Jamie Reno, www.newsweek.com. August 13, 2008.

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• I'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time, I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with.

  Orlando Bloom

  Girl, Fun, Intense

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• When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.

  Johnny Cash

  Baby, Son, Gun

  Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”

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• I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

  John Lennon

  Running, Boys, Turkeys

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• I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

  Cliff Floyd

  Boys, Trying, Stuff

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• You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

  Lora Leigh

  Archer, Eye, Boys

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• We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

  James Lovegrove

  Girl, Fall, Boys

  James Lovegrove (2010). “The Age of Zeus”, p.144, Solaris

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• You don't go after what's mine. Now be a good boy and gut yourself." -Xhex, Lover Mine.

  J.R. Ward

  Boys, Lovers, Guts

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• But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

  John Galliano

  Real, Good Day, Boys

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• My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

  Jack Kirby

  Children, Father, Boys

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you'll see how those two things are exactly the same.

  Katherine Center

  Boys, Two, Care

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• My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

  Bill Nye

  Father, Boys, Ties

  "Q&A: Bill Nye on Superman's Beard, His Own Bow Tie, and the Importance of Dressing Well". Interview with Jonathan Evans, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2013.

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• We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.

  Patti Smith

  Girl, Dark, Boys

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.9, A&C Black

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• Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got incredible powers of reconciliation. "He looks like a good boy," her vovo said over her shoulder. "A good Catholic boy." And that was that -- for now.

  J.R. Ward

  Religious, Grandmother, Boys

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• Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."

  Diogenes

  Boys, Men, Good Man

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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