Patrick O'Brian Quote

But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either , which is infamous, or , which is imbecile.

Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.

It was an operation that Dr. Maturin had carried out at sea before, always in the fullest possible light and therefore on deck, and many of them had seen him do so.

The back of my hand to guilt.

If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.