Pirate Quotes

Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get…

— Cory Doctorow

I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got…

— Dizzee Rascal

--Hero!? Forget it! We're Pirates! I love heroes but I don't wanna become one! Do you even know what it takes to…

— Eiichiro Oda

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

— Ray Stevenson

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

— Dianna Agron

The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can…

— Mark Twain

I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it.…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Of all the jaw-droppingly beautiful women who've become genuine movie stars, none has had a longer film career (62 years), has been…

— Robert Osborne

We are quite sure the Pirate Bay is legal in Sweden.

— Peter Sunde

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate…

— Michelle Branch

I like the pirate and gypsy vibe. That's always been my thing.

— Marisol Nichols

When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when…

— Saint Augustine

Belize is still a pirate haven and is run more or less along the lines established centuries ago by the likes of…

— John McAfee

“There’s only one thing more stupid than stupid rules, and that’s the people who follow them.”

— Sam Conniff Allende

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said…

— Roald Dahl

My gentleman gives the law where he is; he will outpray saints in chapel, outgeneral veterans in the field, and outshine all…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a…

— Anonymous

I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow…

— James Spader

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years to late. Cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder, I'm an over forty victim…

— Jimmy Buffett

“When you're young, you think the world will make room for who you are and what you want.... And then you find…

— Liz Braswell

There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't…

— Brad Meltzer

What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been…

— Bo Burnham

The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to…

— Ray Stevenson

Pirates have always fascinated me.

— Tanith Lee