Pirate Quotes - Page 3

• Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.

  Henry Every

  Clothes, Design, Brave

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• My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.

  Robert Palmer

  Growing Up, Track, Listening

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• As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

  Anne Bonny

  Men, Sea, Hardship

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• My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.

  William Kidd

  Lord, Sentences, Persons

  Carrie (Jenkins) [Harris ("Mrs. C. W. Harris"]), Charles Edward Lloyd, Mary (Queen of Scots), Francis Hargrave, William Kidd (1899). “State Trials of Mary, Queen of Scots, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain William Kidd”

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• Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.

  Howell Davis

  Hands, Three, Able

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• The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir

  Powerful, Party, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

  Will Oldham

  Real, Littles, Admirable

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• In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

  Bartholomew Roberts

  Running, Two, Balance

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• I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Adventure, Risk, Alive

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• When a pirate grows rich enough, they make him a prince.

  George R. R. Martin

  Rich, Enough, Grows

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.825, Bantam

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• Pirates could happen to anyone.

  Tom Stoppard

  Happens

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.104, Faber & Faber

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• I'm a big fan of pirates in general.

  Mike Leach

  Fans, Bigs

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• I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

  Todd Barry

  Culture, Knows

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• When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied:
  The same as you do when you infest the whole world;
  but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,
  and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor.

  Saint Augustine

  Kings, Sea, Cynical

  Augustine, R. W. Dyson (1998). “Augustine: The City of God Against the Pagans”, p.148, Cambridge University Press

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• Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium.

  Gideon Defoe

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: Reissued”, p.96, A&C Black

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• Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

  Dianna Agron

  Badass, Past, People

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Aug 29, 2012

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• It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.

  Steve Jobs

  Fun, Loving What You Do, Navy

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• Freedom is the kind of essence of being a pirate: You're away from land-locked Europe. You're not part of the society. You're part of the brotherhood of the sea, Your ship is your sense of identity. So when you approach the wheel, that's what you own.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Europe, Sea, Land

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• I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you.

  Jon Taffer

  Bars, Honest, Being Honest

  Twitter post from Nov 25, 2016

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• --Hero!? Forget it! We're Pirates! I love heroes but I don't wanna become one! Do you even know what it takes to be a Hero!? Lets say you have some meat okay? Now a Pirate would chomp down on that bad boy, but a hero would share it with everyone!! I want to eat meat!""--Hero!? Forget it! We're Pirates! I love heroes but I don't wanna become one! Do you even know what it takes to be a Hero!? Lets say you have some meat okay? Now a Pirate would chomp down on that bad boy, but a hero would share it with everyone!! I want to eat meat!" - Monkey D. Luffy

  Eiichiro Oda

  Hero, Boys, Monkeys

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• Other pirates leaped over the railing. One, two... seven... thirteen. A baker’s dozen. Wait, fifteen. Eighteen... Twenty-one. The odds weren’t in our favor. “Maybe they just came over to borrow a cup of sugar,” I said. Andrea barked a short laugh. Curran put his hand on my shoulder. “That’s a lot of sugar. Must be a big cake.

  Ilona Andrews

  Two, Odds, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• One of my favourite messages about The Pirate Fairy is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

  Christina Hendricks

  Appreciate, Stories, Messages

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• When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

  Adam Young

  Eye, Boys, People

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• Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Vampire, Trying, Robots

  "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". The WashingtonPost Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

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• I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Enemy, Going Away

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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