Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander
8 quotes
"The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew."
"He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. 'Christ,' he said at last. 'Another day."
"Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love..."
"The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy."
"The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words."
"Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile."
"What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not."
"The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets."