Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish pirate Anne Bonny.
Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Anne Bonny, sometimes Anne Bonney, was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates in recorded history. What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates.
Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.
I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.