Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Pirates

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.

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.

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.

Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.

Come, don't be in a fright, but put on your clothes, and I'll let you into a secret. You must know that I am Captain of this ship now, and this is my cabin, therefore you must walk out. I am bound to Madagascar, with a design of making my own fortune, and that of all the brave fellows joined with me...if you have a mind to make one of us, we will receive you, and if you'll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here's a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.

Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang'd like a dog.

Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces.

Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!

I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.

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

And what fate befalls mutineers?

Angelica. My beloved daughter, the one true good thing I have done in this life.

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

Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.

Aye, tough mermaids are, the lot of them.

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

Your words surround you like fog and make you hard to see.

A good dream, is better than a shitty reality.

People are what are scary...people.