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.”

“I mean to shame her; that’s just what I want. She has all her life presumed on her delicacy, and her good looks, and her lady-ike airs, till she forgets who she is;—and I’ll give her one lesson that will bring her down, I fancy!”