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Best Sir Quotes by 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…
- If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our…
- I do not see, Sir, that it is reasonable for a man to be angry at another, whom a woman has preferred to him; but…
- Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You…
- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
- Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
- Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no nation…
- I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place,…
- 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.
- 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…
- There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art…
- Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
- Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; -from fear of its being abused.
- Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him.…
- You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired…
- There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
- Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts
- There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has…
- Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such poems [Ossian] .…
- Sir, we are a nest of singing birds
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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… — James M. Barrie
- It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here! — Glenn Beck
- 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
- In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio… — Martin Ryle
- Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a… — H. L. Mencken
- So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to… — Laurence Sterne
- The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St.… — Ludwig von Mises