Pirate Quotes

191 Pirate quotes by 148 unique authors

The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held… — Wilbur Smith
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our… — Vivienne Westwood
Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires.… — Daniel H. Wilson
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on… — Kurt Vonnegut
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pirates could happen to anyone. — Tom Stoppard
Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain… — Shel Silverstein
He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere… — Thomas Pynchon
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or… — Lloyd Jones
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the… — Charles M. Schulz
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the… — Voltaire
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning. — William Goldman
I don't wanna be a Pirate!!!! — Jerry Seinfeld
Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late. — Jimmy Buffett
No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all… — Brian K. Vaughan
You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang! — Robert Louis Stevenson
Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the… — Cory Doctorow
It's like you said the other day," said Adam. "You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you… — Neil Gaiman
But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me… — Dave Barry
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages… — Kathy Acker
I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The… — Kathy Acker
Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I… — Gideon Defoe
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. — James M. Barrie
Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,… — Shel Silverstein

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