Ma'am Quotes
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Because something is not what it is said to be, Ma'am, does not mean it is a fake. It may just have been wrongly attributed.
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More Ma'am Quotes
Yes, Ma'am.
— Who: Pvt. Edmund "Ed" Mavole
— Source: The Manchurian Candidate
— Note: Says this when a brainwashed Raymond Shaw attempts to strangle him during a demonstration before the Soviet brass. Mavole protests, but the demonstration's host encourages him to cooperate. Mavole, himself brainwashed into believing the host is the speaker at a women's gardening club, complies and is voluntarily strangled to death.
"Heat, Ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
sydney smith— Volume I, page 267.
No, Ma'am. I know what beer leads to.
— Who: Llewelyn Moss
— Source: No Country for Old Men
— Note: Moss says this while talking to a woman at his hotel. He is shot and killed, offscreen, by a group of Mexican mercenaries, shortly afterward.
Well Ma'am, if I see him, I'll sure give him the message.
— Who: Loren Visser
— Source: Blood Simple
— Note: Character is referring to the deceased Julian Marty. Abby, having just shot Visser through a cracked door, had just said, "I'm not afraid of you, Marty."
I'd like a hamburger and a coke, please. / Sir, we don't serve negroes here. / Ma'am, I don't eat negroes. I'd like a hamburger and a coke.
joseph lowery— Conversation was originally at a burger joint in Nashville, TN, but the story was recounted at a Speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., January 17, 2005, Clemson University.
