Where there is a sea there are pirates.
Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will
brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
Dead men don’t bite.
Bring me one noggin of rum, now, won’t you, matey.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. – Life on the Mississippi.
When I was about 5 i think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.
by Keira Knightley
Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today
mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.
Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.
Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Suddenly you’re like a pirate, you’re 65 years old and you’ve got an ear-ring.
You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow
- Pirates of the Caribbean
The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good
man or you can’t. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you’ll have to square with that some day. – Pirates of the Caribbean
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Excuse me, madam, would you please be so kind as to bring me a spot of rum? I would like to have a drink.
I don’t really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I’d be a contrarian pirate.