Sir Quotes - page 2

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.'' (Ernest Hemingway)
I'm not insane, sir,” I said. "I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. View quote
John Scalzi
Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English. View quote
Aravind Adiga
Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir. View quote
Michael Chabon
Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich that one word contradicts everything you can say against him. View quote
Henry Fielding
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. View quote
Henry Fielding
The newspapers Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir. View quote
George Farquhar
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun it shines everywhere. View quote
William Shakespeare
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. (Abraham Lincoln)
You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue! View quote
Bryan Lee O'Malley
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life. View quote
Peter O'Toole
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! View quote
Robert Walpole
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. View quote
John Updike
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it. View quote
Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race. View quote
Daniel Webster
Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. View quote
William Henry Harrison
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation. View quote
Alain de Botton
His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it. (William Hazlitt)
I don't think, sir, that you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is. View quote
George Eliot
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir and there are many victories worse than a defeat. View quote
George Eliot
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone. View quote
Richard Anthony Proctor