William Shakespeare - The Christmas No.1 Story TV - Lord of the Flies 1963 & William Golding - Sunset Boulevard 1950 - Hannibal 2000 - The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 - Whole Lotta Sole 2011 - Faulks on Fiction TV - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 - Lewis Carroll - J O Halliwell - Noel Coward - Robert Falcon Scott - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Charles Dickens & Great Expectations 2012 - Thomas Hardy - James Joyce - Razzle Dazzle 2007 -
65,602. This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,
This senior-junior giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid. William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost I ii 192
8,886. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. (Children & Boy & School & Pupil & Student) William Shakespeare, As You Like It II vii 143
65,603. Bring forth men-children only;
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males. William Shakespeare, Macbeth I vii 72
9,468. 1969 Rolf Harris: Two Little Boys. (Christmas & Music & Pop Music & Boy) The Christmas No.1 Story, BBC 2012
20,638. What are all your names? (GBH Films & Names & Boys) Lord of the Flies 1963 starring James Aubrey & Tom Chapin & Hugh Edwards & Roger Elwin & Tom Gaman & David Surtees & Simon Surtees & Nicholas Hammond et al, director Peter Brook, Piggy
20,639. His name’s not Fatty. His real name’s piggy. (GBH Films & Names & Boys) ibid. Ralph
20,640. If we don’t lose our head, we’ll be all right. (GBH Films & Boys) ibid. Ralph
20,641. After all, we’re not savages, we’re English, and the English are better at everything. (GBH Films & England & Boys) ibid. Jack
20,642. We might stay here until we die. (GBH Films & Life’s Like That & Island & Boys) ibid. Piggy
20,643. A snake thing. Ever so big. We saw it. When we was hiding in the jungle in the dark. (GBH Films & Monster & Beast & Boys) ibid. Piggy
20,644. I tell you there isn’t a beast. (GBH Films & Monster & Beast & Boys) ibid. Ralph
20,645. Bash her in! Kill the pig! (GBH Films & Boys) ibid. all
20,646. I don’t believe in no ghosts. Ever. (GBH Films & Ghost & Boys) ibid. Piggy
20,647. Who thinks there may be ghosts? (GBH Films & Ghost & Boys) ibid. Ralph
20,648. The rules. You’re breaking the rules. Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got. (GBH Films & Rules & Boys) ibid. Ralph
20,649. Why are things going wrong like they are? (GBH Films & Life’s Like That & Wrong & Boys) ibid. Ralph to Piggy
20,650. I gave you food and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who’ll join my tribe? (GBH Films & Gangstas & Boys) ibid. Jack
20,651. You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody bloody thief. (GBH Films & Insult & Boys) ibid. Ralph to Jack
20,652. Which is it better to be? A pack of painted savages like you are, or sensible like Ralph is? (GBH Films & Life’s Like That & Boys) ibid. Piggy
29,878. You’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages. We’re English. And the English are best at everything. So we’ll have lots of rules. And when anybody breaks them ... (English & Boys & Children & Rules) William Golding, The Lord of the Flies
22,941. Mad About The Boy. (Film Noir & Murder & Boy) Sunset Boulevard: A Hollywood Story 1950 starring Gloria Swanson & Erich von Stronheim & William Holden & Nancy Olson & Fred Clark & Lloyd Gough & Jack Webb & Franklyn Farnum et al, director Billy Wilder, inscription in card case
23,011. You’re a very unusual boy, aren’t you? (Murder Films & Boy) Hannibal 2000 starring Anthony Hopkins & Julianne Moore & Gary Oldman & Ray Liotta & Frankie Faison & Giancarlo Giannini & Francesca Neri & David Andrews & Francis Guianan et al, director Ridley Scott, Lecter to boy
23,085. All I want’s my boy. (Murder & Boy) The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 starring Doris Day & James Stewart & Bernard Miles & Brenda De Banzie & Ralph Truman & Daniel Gelin & Mogens Wieth & Alan Mowbray & Hillary Booke & Christopher Olsen et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, Stewart
23,445. But you do have something that I want. Not want – have to have. I want that wee boy of yours. (GBH Films & Boy) Whole Lotta Sole 2011 starring Brendan Fraser & Colm Meaney & Martin McCann & Yaya DaCosta & Michael Legge & David O'Hara et al, director, boss to gambler
8,875. Now the villain was to be an even more unlikely figure, one who initially looks like an angel in Paradise. At first sight it would seem an idyllic setting. An island deserted apart from a handful of innocent schoolboys. Yet it was here that William Golding proposed to look evil straight in the face. And that face belonged to perhaps the most shocking villain in British fiction – a twelve-year-old choirboy called Jack Meridew. (Children & Abuse & Bully & Villain & Evil & Boys & Fiction & Novel & Literature) Faulks on Fiction: The Villains 4/4
65,360. Patient: Is it a boy or a girl?
Obstetrician: Now I think it’s a little early to start imposing roles on it, don’t you? (Birth & Boy & Girl) Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life 1983 starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin & Carol Cleveland & Patricia Quinn et al, director Terry Jones
65,598. Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes;
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
65,599. What are little boys made of? J O Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes 1844
65,600. Mad about the boy. Noel Coward, title of song 1932
65,601. Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games. Robert Falcon Scott, last letter to wife 1913
65,604. Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
78,406. Come along, boy! Boy! Great Expectations 2012 starring Jeremy Irvine & Helena Bonham Carter & Ralph Fiennes & Robbie Coltrane & Jason Flemyng & Holliday Grainger & Ewen Bremner & Sally Hawkins & David Walliams & Olly Alexander et al, director Mike Newell
78,407. I’ve a pretty large experience of boys. And you’re a bad set of fellows – behave yourself. ibid. Coltrane
95,097. You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy! ... O running stream of sparkling joy to be a soaring human boy! Charles Dickens, Bleak House
95,098. ‘Don’t you be afraid of hurting the boy,’ he says. ibid.
95,251. In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy,
And the roof-lamp’s oily flame
Played down on his listless form and face,
Bewrapt past knowing to what he was going,
Or whence he came ... (Boy & Journey & Train) Thomas Hardy, Midnight on the Great Western
97,853. Boys always hog centre stage. And they hurt the girls. (Dance & Boys) Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance 2007 starring Nick Twiney & Kerry Armstrong & Denise Roberts & Tara Morice & Ben Miller & Jane Hall & Nadine Garner & Toni Lamond & Noeline Brown & Josephine Barwick & Barry Crocker & Damon Gameau & Scott Irwin et al, director Daren Ashton, grown-ups