Sir Quotes
841 quotes by 534 authors
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity…
— James M. Barrie
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It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!
— Glenn Beck
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
— Usain Bolt
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Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere…
— Richard Branson
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I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
— Billy Carter
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things…
— Joe Nichols
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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the…
— Martin Ryle
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and…
— H. L. Mencken
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind…
— Laurence Sterne
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The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Well, sir, let us do what we can to curtail this visit, which can hardly be agreeable to you, and is inexpressibly irksome to me.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great…
— Tecumseh
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Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
— William Shakespeare
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preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face.…
— John Aubrey
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