Cruelty Quote by James Russell Lowell

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

— Thomas Jefferson

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

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

— Hart Crane

Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of…

— William Shakespeare

There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a…

— Brad Meltzer

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 sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No…

— Christopher Paolini

Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

— Clive Barker

I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the…

— H. M. Tomlinson

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has…

— Joseph Conrad

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

— Ray Stevenson

“When handled in a civilized fashion, Piracy on the high seas could become more of a wise business decision than of a sheer, chaotic,…

— Ted Anthony Roberts