Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Bartholomew Roberts

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Bartholomew Roberts, born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate and the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, taking over 400 prizes in his career. Roberts raided ships off the Americas and the West African coast between 1719 and 1722; he is also noted for creating his own Pirate Code, and adopting an early variant of the Skull and Crossbones flag.

Welsh - Pirate | May 17, 1682 - February 10, 1722

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Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!

Bartholomew Roberts

A merry life and a short one shall be my motto.

Bartholomew Roberts

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

Bartholomew Roberts

In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto.

Bartholomew Roberts

For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!

Bartholomew Roberts

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Bartholomew Roberts

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