Authority Quote by Tinsley Mortimer

Southerners pride themselves on being polite. This is why we always use euphemisms to express ourselves.

— Tinsley Mortimer

I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.

— Darrell Issa

“ “Good manners are free, but forgetting them often costs you dearly.” -Traditional Southern Wisdom”

— Deborah Ford

I went to a military school, so I'm always talking like 'Yes, sir,' or 'No, ma'am.' I was doing that even before military school,…

— Larry Fitzgerald

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…

— Chris Black

“In every southerner, beneath the veneer of clichés lies a much deeper motherlode of cliché. But even cliché is overlaid with enormous power when…

— Pat Conroy

“I realized that if I ever have children, I don't want them to have American childhoods. I don't want them to say 'Hi' to…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You're welcome, ma'am." My head whips up at the ma'am. Not that I haven't heard that word spilled like sticky sweet syrup from a…

— Liz Reinhardt

My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like…

— Ian Harding

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew…

— Rick Riordan

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than…

— Bill Bryson

In America, people come up to me and say, 'Hi, Sir Humph!'

— Nigel Hawthorne