Fiction Quote by George MacDonald Fraser Download Open image ““Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!”” — George MacDonald Fraser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction History Humour Pirates
“How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Never name a ship after your wife in one of your novels, then sink it in the next chapter...” — Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
“If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the… — Sara Levine Copy Share Image
“Never a ship sails out of bay but carries my heart as a stowaway.” — Roselle Mercier Montgomery Copy Share Image
“And when the day arrives for the final voyage and the ship of no return is set to sail, you’ll find me aboard, traveling… — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
“You are standing up on the seat of your swing and sailing higher than you really ought to, with that bold, planted stance of… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.” — Otto Neurath Copy Share Image
“The strange thing about ships is despite them being crowded and stinky and at the mercy of Nature, most times they are like wooden… — Louis Nowra Copy Share Image
“...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself...” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It” — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“You never know what to expect on encountering royalty. I've seen 'em stark naked except for wings of peacock feathers (Empress of China), giggling drunk in the embrace of a wrestler (Maharani of the Punjab), voluptuously wrapped in wet silk (Queen of Madagascar), wafting to and fro on a swing (Rani of Jhansi), and tramping along looking like an out-of-work… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share
“I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.” — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“The advantage to being a wicked bastard is that everyone pesters the Lord on your behalf; if volume of prayers from my saintly enemies… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“...and suddenly, without the slightest volition on my part, there was the most crashing discharge of wind, like the report of a mortar. My horse started; Cardigan jumped in his saddle, glaring at me…Be Silent! snaps he, and he must have been in a highly nervous condition himself, otherwise he would never have added, in a hoarse whipser: Can you… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share
“I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“Thats what you young chaps have to remember. When u run, RUN! Full speed. Don't dither or dally even for an instant. let terror… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in… — George MacDonald Fraser Copy Share Image
“…progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to” — Phil Hogan Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
There's always that discussion about fiction about how do you market it - these are books for boys, these are books for girls, these… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear,… — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“His hands on my waist he gently pulled me n embrace. I could feel his breath on my face our lips were about to… — Nicole Eglinger Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
