Pirates Quotes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life

I feel sullied and unusual.

Help that lady to her feet and take care of her. How we supposed to get any ransom money for damaged goods?

Now... bring me that horizon.

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. 

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.

Pirates could happen to anyone.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates

There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away.

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. [...] to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

It is, it is a glorious thing / To be a Pirate King.

Mine is the name pirates fear the most: Edward “Snugglecakes” Van Helgen!

I should like to know which is worse: to be raped a hundred times by negro pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgars, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fé, 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?

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.

The best way to profit from pirates is to copy them.

If you pay money to see Pirates of the Caribbean […] it’s your own fault and you’re helping bring down the collapse of western civilization.