Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by William Kidd

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish explorer William Kidd.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish sea captain who was commissioned as a privateer and had experience as a pirate. He was tried and executed in London in 1701 for murder and piracy.

Scottish - Explorer | 1645 - May 23, 1701

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I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

William Kidd

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

William Kidd

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

William Kidd

I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

William Kidd

My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.

William Kidd

I had no money nor friends to prepare for the trial till last night.

William Kidd

If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

William Kidd

This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board?

William Kidd

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.

William Kidd

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

William Kidd

My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.

William Kidd