Sir Quotes

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!

My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I should have fled as fast as any man, no man can possibly have a greater reluctance to an intimacy with Sir William Howe than my Self.

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

I had an awful first quarter but I picked it up. To all you single guys out there, it's not how you start the date, it's how you finish it sir. A lot of people can, you know, start the date with flowers and candy, but if you don't finish the date - you know what I mean?

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.

Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.

Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.