C.S. Forester

“Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.”

— C.S. Forester

“The boarders cheered and followed him. “Boarders away!” shouted the petty officers, and everywhere the Marguerite’s men grabbed up weapons and came…

— C.S. Forester

“Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite…

— C.S. Forester

“Bush put both arms round Hornblower’s shoulders and walked with dragging feet. It did not matter that his feet dragged and his…

— C.S. Forester

“Bush could never understand Hornblower's disciplinary methods. He had been positively horrified when he had heard his captain's public admission that he…

— C.S. Forester

“His officers saw little of him, and did not love what they saw.”

— C.S. Forester

“The lucky man . . . is usually the man who knows how much to leave to chance.”

— C.S. Forester

“If one plan goes wrong there is need to make another, that is all. And, as for despair — there was no…

— C.S. Forester

“Though there are very serious disadvantages about being a true believer. Who would want four wives at any time, especially when one…

— C.S. Forester

“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”

— C.S. Forester

“...irresponsibility was something which, in the very nature of things, could not co-exist with independence.”

— C.S. Forester

“The wise man does not mix grain and grape”

— C.S. Forester

“His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.”

— C.S. Forester