Jaime Murray
Actress
"Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn."
Pirate quotes
Pirate
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Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate"
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor."
Terry Pratchett
Author
"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
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"A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest."
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"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 gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide."
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"I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race"
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"My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer."
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"Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic."
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"There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates."
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"It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy."
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"Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all."
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"The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other."
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"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
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"My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit."
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"A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all."
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"Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines."
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"I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents."
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"The horizon has been defeated by the pirates of the new age."
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"They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half."
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"Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late."
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"A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean"
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"I'd rather be a Pirate than join the Navy"
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"The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate."
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