Chiefs Quote by Bertrand Russell

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather…

— Bernard Williams

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

The Pirate is surrealism and so, in a curious way, is Father of the Bride.

— Vincente Minnelli

“Imagine having a well-cultivated pirate crew and established career as the terror of the seas, only to have some bloody ten-year-old show up claiming…

— Austin Chant

“He was born of a human-fungal love affair that shook the court of Onddo. His mother was a human, a princess of the court,…

— Orrin Grey

“The Robespierre women (as one tended to think of them now) were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it was her…

— Hilary Mantel

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” -…

— Johnny Depp

“If you want to know the truth, pirates can be even sillier than Miss Pimm’s girls, although they are not nearly as cruel.”

— Caroline Carlson

“Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four…

— David Cordingly

I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes…

— Will Oldham