Sailing Quote by Napoleon On Robert Fulton's Steamship

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave - The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in…

— Margaret Atwood

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

— James Lawrence

“Wild ideas popped up again in my head. What if I quietly went over and cut off the mooring ropes on one of the…

— Knut Hamsun

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead...

— Tori Amos

All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

— John Masefield

I'd have my ashes scattered on the Thames. Everyone can look at the water and say, 'There she is,' then wave.

— Alison Hammond

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably…

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she…

— Jeanette Winterson

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

— Henrik Ibsen

E'en her fair hand, which might bid heat return To Frozen age, and make old hermits burn, Applied to my dead cinder, warms no…

— John Wilmot