teaching a lesson Quotes

“I should just lie down and die- that would teach them. The only trouble is that it could take awhile because I’m actually feeling pretty healthy.”

″‘It’s for your own good,’ she says. ‘You’ve got to learn.‘”

“On the whole he is not a bad pupil. I wouldn’t want to make him miserable because of a single prank. I know what it means to be a young Roman to be a pupil in the Xanthos School. And I hope you know it too.”

“I would have given those boys a good kick, and that would have given them a lesson.”