Swashbuckling Pirate Quotes & Sayings

Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of a pirate ship, which had been captained by one of the most remarkable pirates in history. This is a real-life Treasure Island, complete with swashbuckling, half-crazy treasure hunters and vivid Caribbean settings-a story for the ages. — Douglas Preston

The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second - — Anthony Doerr

I looked around and it was like I was seeing everything frozen into a still photograph, like I was seeing my whole life but in one of those shots you look and later think, Yeah, that's what it was like, once upon a time. Once upon a time ago. — Anna Quindlen

A broken clock is right two times a day. — Orson Scott Card

When handled in a civilized fashion, Piracy on the high seas could become more of a wise business decision than of a sheer, chaotic, unorganized criminal act. And I saw very little difference in what we were doing than the royals and courtiers were doing in the midst of cities, and of calling what they were doing legal and legitimate. — Ted Anthony Roberts

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination. — Plato

Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real. — Max Gladstone

Is this seat taken?" she asked him again, tapping on a chair at the table.
"That's where my Rum is sitting. He is my guest!"
"But the bottle is in your hand, and not in this chair," she spoke, pointing out the bottle.
"So, it is!" he answered, looking at his Rum. Then, looking back at her: "But he was invited to this party. — Ted Anthony Roberts

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all. — R.L. LaFevers

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to win, what makes a great team; it's performance on the field, respect on the field. — Hope Solo

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong? — Julian Barnes