Sir Quotes

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess. (Samuel Johnson)
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. View quote
Samuel Johnson
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, Sir, was then the primary object. View quote
Patrick Henry
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow. View quote
Aphra Behn
It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here! View quote
Glenn Beck
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Issue the orders, sir, and I will storm hell! View quote
Anthony Wayne
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. (Evelyn Waugh)
Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. View quote
James Buchanan
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? View quote
Alexander Pope
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sir, what is poetry Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is but it is not easy to tell what it is. (Samuel Johnson)
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Then, Sir, we will give them the bayonet! View quote
Stonewall Jackson
So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it. View quote
Laurence Sterne
A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days. View quote
Aphra Behn