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Sir Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- 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…
- High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own…
- God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
- No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
- What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
- 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…
- Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.
- Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both…
- Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of…
- Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
- If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good…
- Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
- I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you…
- A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
- Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing…
- On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite…
- Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
- Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing…
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- If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice. — Usain Bolt
- Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking… — Richard Branson
- 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
- Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. — Billy Carter
- Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. — Miguel de Cervantes
- I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do… — Joe Nichols