I have been to the speed of God, sir. . . and I discommend it.
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
He will always be my Sir Galahad.
Sir Alex, one of the best managers of all time. After 26 years of success in the game, we all owe him a tribute.
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: “I am a Country member”. I interjected “I remember”. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.
But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.
What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it.
They've come to overthrow the court, sir!
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.
I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here. (on Sir Alex Ferguson)
The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.
My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.
I got the letter about becoming a Sir in 2000, the same year that Pauline asked me if we could finally get married. My assistant, Colette, called up and it turned out both the wedding and the Buck House ceremony were happening on the same day. I was knighted at 11 and married at four. She became an instant Lady.
If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that. " In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?
Sir, Your letter of the 15th is received, but Age has long since obliged me to withhold my mind from Speculations of the difficulty of those of your letter, that their are means of artificial buoyancy by which man may be supported in the Air, the Balloon has proved, and that means of directing it may be discovered is against no law of Nature and is therefore possible as in the case of Birds, but to do this by mechanical means alone in a medium so rare and unassisting as air must have the aid of some principal not yet generally known.
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.
When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.
Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.