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Sir Quotes by William Shakespeare
- Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.
- A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
- Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the…
- Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
- In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
- Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
- I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned…
- Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog.
- Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers…
- Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.
- I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the…
- I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
- I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be…
- Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my…
- But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without…
- Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
- You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
- I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs…
- Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques and revels…
- Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth…
- I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All,…
- Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
- Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.
- Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
- Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain…
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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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