Civil Quote by Patrick O'Brian

“Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master,…

— Patrick O'Brian

“To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Never mind the disappointment. Salt water will wash it away. You will be amazed how unimportant it will seem in a week’s time –…

— Patrick O'Brian

“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going…

— Patrick O'Brian

My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than…

— Patrick O'Brian

“This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the…

— Patrick O'Brian

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

— Patrick O'Brian

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.

— Patrick O'Brian

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

— Patrick O'Brian

“But I will tell you another misery that is not to be denied. In the common, natural course of events physicians, surgeons and apothecaries…

— Patrick O'Brian

“Yet,'said Maturin, pursuing his own thought, 'there is a quality in dogs, I must confess, rarely to be seen elsewhere and that is affection:…

— Patrick O'Brian