35 Quotes by Frederick Marryat

Her life was solitary—but she had numerous resources within herself...

Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.

I must, indeed, have had a sorry taste to be intimate with a blotched wretch like you.

To those who have been accustomed to the difficulties and dangers of a sea-faring life, there are no lines which speak more forcibly to the imagination, or prove the beauty and power of the Greek poet, than those in the noble prayer of Ajax:"Lord of earth and air,O king! O father! hear my humble prayer.Dispel this cloud, that light of heaven restore;Give me to see - and Ajax asks no more,If Greece must perish - we Thy will obey;But let us perish in the face of day!

Poor men ... always make love better than those who are rich, because, having less to care about, and not being puffed up with their own consequence, they are not so selfish and think much more of the lady than of themselves.

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...

... the sea defrauds many an honest undertaker of his profits.

Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.

My wisdom is for my friends, my folly for myself.