Sir Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

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.

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

No, sir, I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

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

But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.

That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived.

I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.

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.

But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

I had to think long and hard about what it would imply, what it would mean. Would it mean any alterations of one's lifestyle? Or, more than that, the way that people regarded you? The way they reacted to you if you had a Sir in front of your name?

And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

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

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

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