On being asked whether his stammering caused him inconvenience:

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.


Francis Darwin 'Reminiscences of My Father's Everyday Life', in Charles Darwin Autobiography (1877 ed.)


No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.

No, Sir, because I have time to think before I speak, and don't ask impertinent questions.