“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
Part I, ch. 1.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Henry Fielding (1707–1754) English novelist and dramatist
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
Martin Joseph Routh (1755–1854) Classical scholar and college head
Standard reply to people proposing changes in the running of Oxford University; quoted in Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), p. 37
“Corrupt my brother, will you? I'll see you in hell first, sir.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“Sir, I am not in your land, but in my own.”
El Cid (1048–1099) Spanish nobleman and military leader
El Cid's answer to the king when ordered to quit his land; in Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish by Robert Southey (1808), Book III, §18, p. 96
Attributed
Osama bin Laden (1957–2011) founder of al-Qaeda
On the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in an audiotape broadcast on Al Jazeera (23 May 2006).
2000s, 2004, 2004 Video Broadcast on Al-Jazeera October 29
William Tyndale (1494–1536) Bible translator and agitator from England
Genesis 4:9.
Tyndale's translations
“I am a trained empiricist, sir. Superstition is not compatible with my pursuits.”
Sean Russell (1952) author
Source: World Without End (1995), Chapter 4 (p. 40)
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Book 3 “A Rose Redeemed; A Rose Revived,” Chapter 1 “Of Weapons Possessed of Will” (p. 270)
The Elric Cycle, The Revenge of the Rose (1991)
“Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”
Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies