Pirate Quotes

191 Pirate quotes by 148 unique authors

As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea,… — Anne Bonny
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 was… — Bernard Williams
Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag. — Bela Kiraly
It's not everyday you get to do a pirate movie, you might as well go for it. — Keira Knightley
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell
Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the… — Sid Meier
In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates. — Michel Foucault
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the… — Noam Chomsky
What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy — Bo Burnham
When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story… — Orlando Bloom
With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused… — Tim Ferriss
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit… — Eric Wolf
Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the… — Geoffrey Rush
I had never experienced anything like the response I got from people for Pirates of the Caribbean, where you meet a 75-year-old woman who had… — Johnny Depp
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be… — James Spader
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's… — Gore Verbinski
I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you. — Jon Taffer
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they… — Bertrand Russell
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. — Will Oldham
I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something… — Will Oldham
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring. — Fred Willard
How much greater would their contributions to the U.S. economy be if U.S. copyright owners could access foreign markets otherwise dominated by pirate product? — Howard Berman
If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit. — Michelle Branch

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