“The boarders cheered and followed him. “Boarders away!” shouted the petty officers, and everywhere the Marguerite’s men grabbed up weapons and came pouring over into the Castilla, yelling like madmen in their excitement. Here and there resistance was offered to… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.” — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“The boarders cheered and followed him. “Boarders away!” shouted the petty officers, and everywhere the Marguerite’s men grabbed up weapons and came pouring over… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“Bush put both arms round Hornblower’s shoulders and walked with dragging feet. It did not matter that his feet dragged and his legs would… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“Bush could never understand Hornblower's disciplinary methods. He had been positively horrified when he had heard his captain's public admission that he too had… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“The lucky man . . . is usually the man who knows how much to leave to chance.” — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“If one plan goes wrong there is need to make another, that is all. And, as for despair — there was no room for… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one pays for… — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
“...irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.” — C.S. Forester Copy Share Image
