35 Quotes by Frederick Marryat

But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

There’s no getting blood out of a turnip.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: ‘God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.’

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water – not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

Philosophy is said to console a man under disappointment, although Shakespeare asserts that it is no remedy for a toothache; so Mr Easy turned philosopher, the very best profession a man can take up who is fit for nothing else.

The wine was good, if the arguments were not, and we must take things as we find them in this world.