Quotes by : Patrick O'Brian

A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the....

Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is....

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

I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.

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

Stephen had been put to sleep in his usual room, far from children and noise, away in that corner of....

Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of....

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.....

Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and....

The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly....