Quotes by : Patrick O'Brian

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

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

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption....

Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin....

He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour,....

They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into....

A little after moonrise Stephen woke. Extreme hunger had brought on cramps in his midriff again and he....

The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his....

One lives in the very present moment lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest....