(154 quotes found)
“Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.”
William S. Gilbert
“Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed!”
Sir Thomas Malory
“Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics”
John Wilkes
“I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.”
William Shakespeare
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster”
“Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.”
“Why refer to Lady Crack Pipe or Good Sir Dishrag when these things could never live up to all that their sex implied.”
David Sedaris
“No profit grows where no pleasure is taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect”
“That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.”
Andrew Jackson
“Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir”
Aphra Behn
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