Yes Sir Quotes

52 quotes by 44 authors

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer. — Billy Carter
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
Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said,… — Harpo Marx
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is… — Jose Mujica
We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes… — Thelma Ritter
There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they… — Mordecai Ham
If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at… — George Carlin
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity. — Lester Maddox
No matter how much makeup I wore, people just kept saying "Yes, sir! Would you like tea with that, sir?" "Yes, I would like tea.… — Eddie Izzard
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… — Samuel Johnson
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every… — Mordecai Ham
I do have rules, and etiquette things. I think it's a southern thing too, to an extent. I'll hold the door for someone, but if… — Chris Black
If you say you're going to do something, you do it. If you start it, you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got… — Robert Griffin III
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I… — Hunter S. Thompson
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir"… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots… — P.G. Wodehouse
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them. — Terry Pratchett

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