194 Quotes by Patrick O'Brian

You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.

A man's pillow is his best medicine

Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed.

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.

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

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth and depth and fewer constraints.

Rested, shaved, coffee’d, steaked, you will be a different man.