Buddy de Sylva (1895–1950) American musician
Song: Sonny Boy (de Sylva wrote the words; Lew Brown and Ray Henderson wrote the music; Al Jolson insisted on being credited too)
Narcissus
Under Rug Swept
Buddy de Sylva (1895–1950) American musician
Song: Sonny Boy (de Sylva wrote the words; Lew Brown and Ray Henderson wrote the music; Al Jolson insisted on being credited too)
“Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: School's Out—Forever
“A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”
Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Ben
Death of a Salesman (1949)
Source: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius (2000)
“You're a smart boy. Or if you're not, you ought to be.”
Cherie Priest book Boneshaker
Source: Boneshaker (2009), p. 327
Harold Macmillan (1894–1986) British politician
Response to a journalist when asked what is most likely to blow governments off course.
The quote is also given as "Events, my dear boy, events", with the word "my", but it may never have been uttered at all.
[What they didn't say: a book of misquotations, Knowles, Elizabeth M., Oxford University Press, 2006, vi, 33]
Disputed
“You're such a nice boy, what do you want to go off and get killed in the War for?”
Ben Hecht book Miracle in the Rain
Miracle in the Rain (1956)
Screenplays
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
Slim Slow Slider
Song lyrics, Astral Weeks (1969)