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Quotes About Sir

Which room is breakfast in?" I asked Baine. "The breakfast room, sir," he said.
~ Connie Willis
Nothing else, sir? came the neutral voice, like one in a dream.
~ D.H. Lawrence
Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
~ Lemony Snicket
The accident," she said finally, "happened because Klaus was hypnotized." "What your brother does for a hobby is none of my concern," Sir said.
~ Lemony Snicket
You're joking, sir.' 'I never joke, Chico. The truth is quite adequately hilarious.
~ Len Deighton
He began the interview by asking what my hobbies were. "Incunabula and intercourse, sir." It slipped out and wasn't even accurate; I'd had little experience of one and couldn't afford the other.
~ Leo Marks
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Eliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
~ Jane Austen
Indeed, sir, I have not the least intention of dancing. I entreat you not to suppose that I moved this way in order to beg for a partner.
~ Jane Austen
I perfectly agree with you, sir,' was then his remark. 'You did behave very shamefully. You never wrote a truer line.
~ Jane Austen
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
~ Jane Austen
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
~ Jane Austen
A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.
~ David Alan Basche
Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir. By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically potry. Rhymed, did you notice?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Jeeves. Sir? Are you busy just now? No, sir. I mean, not doing anything in particular? No, sir. It is my practice at this hour to read some improving book; but, if you desire my services, this can easily be postponed, or, indeed, abandoned altogether.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Just as you say, sir. There is a letter on the tray, sir." "By Jove, Jeeves, that was practically poetry. Rhymed, did you notice?
~ P.G. Wodehouse
art Sir William of Goat?
~ Chris Grabenstein
I have the honor to report, sir, that only eight rounds are left. Are we to continue firing?" he asked.
~ Leo Tolstoy
but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their minds in the manner I have just described, feel as if everybody who comes near them, and also the whole world to boot, were asking, "Oh! what is it? Oh! do tell us, my good sir?
~ Leslie S. Klinger
Before Samuel took over from the military government, the chief administrative officer asked that he sign one of the most quoted documents in Zionist history: "Received from Major General Sir Louis J. Bols, K.C.B.—One Palestine, complete." Samuel signed.
~ Tom Segev
I didn't know Spartans came equipped with a sense of humor. Does that cost extra?" "No, sir," Fred said. "It's more of an operational bug.
~ Troy Denning
I had more questions, but the officer interrupted me with an order. "You can go, sir.
~ Paul Theroux
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
dancing over it—had this happened a week ago, Sir
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat.
~ William Shakespeare