Sir Quotes

Sir Quote of the day

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

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Aha! What villains are these, that trespass upon my private lands! Come to scorn at my fall, perchance? Draw, you knaves, you dogs!

Friendship is not a national affair

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck.

You mean you’re not God? Nooo, say it isn’t so!

You know how really big guys are always nicknamed Tiny?" She didn’t wait for any response, afraid she’d chicken out. "Guess that would make you Master Munchkin, huh?

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

I felt sorry for myself since my wimpy dom can’t catch a snail crossing the sidewalk.

If you keep all those thoughts inside, your brain will explode.

Darlin’, I wasn’t just a Boy Scout, I was an Eagle Scout.

And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?

You are such a sleazeball, Rhodes—walking, talking proof of why siblings shouldn’t marry.

The fun we’ll have tonight is called figging.

New Englanders could be so brusque.

I'm no mystery

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

For under scrutiny you will find that even an open book can have a surprise scribbled in its margins.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

When people throw at you with toxic words

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.

Lovers have no primary needs

Autumn

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.

Struggle is the meaning of life

Reading is learning: Secure Future and earnings

However ordinary each of us may seem, we are all in some way special, and can do things that are extraordinary, perhaps until then…even thought impossible.

That said the conspirators: Tell us your secret and we will have betrayed you for a lifetime.

Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.