Yes Sir Quotes
52 quotes by 44 authors
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
— Lester Maddox
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Yes Sir Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 52 Yes Sir Quotes, led by these top contributors: