Quotes by : Patrick O'Brian

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

There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.

The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.

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

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

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

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

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

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck

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