Top Sir Quotes

  • Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist] – Samuel Johnson

    Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible. [on hearing a famous violinist]– Samuel Johnson

  • Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir. – Oscar Wilde

    Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.– Oscar Wilde

  • My soul, sir? I haven’t got one. The management doesn’t allow them. – Olaf Stapledon

    My soul, sir? I haven’t got one. The management doesn’t allow them.– Olaf Stapledon

  • Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is? – Allan Zullo

    Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?– Allan Zullo

  • Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a ‘yes’ and ‘no’, and ‘an’t please you, sir’. – Elizabeth Gaskell

    Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a ‘yes’ and ‘no’, and ‘an’t please you, sir’.– Elizabeth Gaskell

  • Have you no sense of decency, sir? – Joseph N Welch

    Have you no sense of decency, sir?– Joseph N Welch

  • Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby) – Jonathan Lynn Anthony Jay

    Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)– Jonathan Lynn Anthony Jay

  • Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you. – Benjamin Disraeli

    Sir, I shall not defeat you – I shall transcend you.– Benjamin Disraeli

  • Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money. – Robert A Heinlein

    Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.– Robert A Heinlein

  • Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy. – Philip Caputo

    Before you leave here, Sir, you’re going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.– Philip Caputo