Girls Grammar School

Famous quotes containing the words grammar school, girls, grammar and/or school:

    I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
    Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on the simple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.
    Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947)

    You send a boy to school in order to make friends—the right sort.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)