My Dear Sir Quotes

#1. One is not, my dear sir, a superior man merely because one sees the world in an odious light. One only hates mankind and life itself through failing to look deeply enough.

Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

#2. Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

#3. my dear Sir Thomas!" interrupted Mrs. Norris,

Jane Austen

#4. And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

Herman Melville

#5. I don't think I know your name.'
'Yes, yes my dear sir and I do know your name Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don't remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#7. So ... Boris. Are you evil?' [said the Doctor].
'Not at all, my dear sir,' chuckled Boris.
'You just chuckled,' groaned the Doctor. 'Chuckling's a dead givaway in my books. Along with putting your hands on your hips and snogging another man's wife.

James Goss

#8. It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

Edmond Francois Valentin About

#9. My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

Peter O'Toole

#10. Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. Don't be sorry, my dear sir, for nothing could upset me today! Rejoice, for You-Know-Who is gone at last! Even muggles like yourself should be celebrating this happy, happy day.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

Raoul Dufy

#13. Yes, yes, my dear sir - and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. My dear sir," said the sheikh. "God likes catching His servants unprepared. The boy has set down what is obviously the first plate of food he has seen in a long while in order to thank his Creator. There are few acts of piety more honest than that.

G. Willow Wilson

#15. Do you know, my dear Sir, the position of a man who has nowhere to go, and yet has to go somewhere?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

William Cowper

#18. Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point.

Agatha Christie

#19. "Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

#20. If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

James Buchanan

#21. Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.

Patrick O'Brian

#22. Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Samuel Johnson

#23. Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

Thomas Jefferson

#24. All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#25. Please, young sir! Have mercy! If not for me, please think of my dear wife and my four lovely children who'll be without their daddy!"
"You're not married," said Malicia. "You don't have any children!"
"I might want some one day!

Terry Pratchett

#26. Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?

Nancy Lynn Jarvis

#27. I wanted to say a prayer and tried hard to remember one, but all I could think of was silly phrases such as 'Dear Sir' and 'Under the Circumstances'. In my sadness and confusion I mumbled those.

Hermann Hesse

#28. The woman who engaged him had no idea that her gardener was one of the most distinguished scientists in Britain until a friend came for tea one day and, looking out the window, casually asked: "My dear, why is the Nobel laureate Sir Lawrence Bragg pruning your hedges?" Late

Bill Bryson

#29. [ ... ]my memory is reasonably good - unlike yours, dear sir!"
"Mine is erratic," he said imperturbably. "I remember only what interests me.

Georgette Heyer

#30. COKANE [looking compassionately at him] Ah, my dear fellow, the love of money is the root of all evil.
LICKCHEESE. Yes, sir; and we'd all like to have the tree growing in our garden.

George Bernard Shaw

#31. Too late, my dear Monsieur Chambertin! Sir Percy's mocking voice broke in,

Emmuska Orczy

#32. So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned.
- Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#33. Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!

William Shakespeare

#34. My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.

Frances Hardinge

#35. Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

Stephen Foster

#36. Critic asks: 'And what, sir, is the subject matter of that painting?' - 'The subject matter, my dear good fellow, is the light.

Claude Monet