260 Quotes About Pirates

Lorraine insisted on cooking us something to eat, so while she got on with that we found an old cement bucket and made a big bowl of punch.Blackbeard the pirate used to drink rum and gunpowder, as did most of his men, so we figured a little bit of cement in the punch wouldn’t hurt us. Probably take some of the sweetness away.

I was still seeing pirates in my old way, as almost-imaginary, adventure-story people with parrots on their shoulders, rather than the kind who shoot cannons at parents.

I never in my life saw men so careless of the morrow; hand to mouth is the only word that can describe their way of doing; and what with wasted food and sleeping sentries, though they were bold enough for a brush and be done with it, I could see their entire unfitness for anything like a prolonged campaign.

I like your pluck, but I'd hate to see you swinging from a gibbet because of it.

Xen Ptera was dying. Queen Nor Solis had known it for years, had witnessed her planet's pain with her own eyes -but knowing the truth didn't make facing it any easier. For years, she'd known it coming.

When you bring the galaxy to its knees, you can paint the entire palace in blood, if you wish it." Nor closed her eyes and smiled. She could see it, taste it. And it pleased her.

Dex was suddenly, fiercely glad Andi's crew had stayed to fight, despite his attempts to make them leave. These women had the power to bring the world to its knees, yet here they were, saving it.

No, Valen thought. Where was his power? How had it been crushed so quickly, so easily?

…And unmoored souls may drift on stranger tidesThan those men know of, and be overthrownBy winds that would not even stir a hair…