32 Quotes by C. S. Forester

Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

The fools ran after me and I ran after the whores, foolish though I realized such a proceeding to be.

I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing...

Novel writing wrecks homes.

The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

I’d rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

July 4th, 1776,” mused Keene, reading Hornblower’s date of birth to himself.