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I am so happy that you saw your epop.
— Patrick O'Brian
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
— Patrick O'Brian
Trollops are capital things in port, but will not do at sea.
— Patrick O'Brian
How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.
— Patrick O'Brian
Wittles is up' said Killick
— Patrick O'Brian
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
— Patrick O'Brian
Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it.
— Patrick L.O. Lumumba
Jack, you've debauched my sloth.
— Patrick O'Brian
men strike out their permanent characters; or have those characters struck into them
— Patrick O'Brian
I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...
— Patrick O'Brian
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...
— Patrick O'Brian
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one's demon.
— Patrick O'Brian
Sheep ain't poetical.
— Patrick O'Brian
God,' he thought, 'never let me outlive my wits.
— Patrick O'Brian
Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.
— Patrick Dennis
On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
— Patrick O'Brian
I am everything untamed and untameable! It brought Conor up close to its eye. I am this wild earth, come for you, Conor O'Malley.
— Patrick Ness
Come all you thoughtless young men,a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian
Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.
— Patrick O'Brian
What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not. — Patrick O'Brian
What are bashed neeps?""Neeps hackit with balmagowry. — Patrick O'Brian
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.
— David O. McKay
Some things are just the blink of eternity's eye while others last forever.
— Patrick O'Scheen
They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
— Conan O'Brien
Compulsion is the death of friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.
— Patrick O'Brian
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
— Patrick O'Brian
Wondering just how Mr Church thought he had deserved anything short of impalement, Stephen walked into the cabin.
— Patrick O'Brian
You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.
— Patrick O'Brian
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
— Patrick O'Brian
Lord Nelson's maxim 'Never mind manoeuvres: always go straight at 'em.
— Patrick O'Brian
Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.
— Patrick O'Brian
Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.
— Patrick O'Brian
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.
— Patrick O'Brian
Virtue should always be colmingled with humor.
— Patrick O'Brian
Jack and Stephen were neither of them human until the first pot of coffee was down, hot and strong.
— Patrick O'Brian
Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.
— John O'Donohue
But when a man puts on maturity and invulnerability, it seems that he necessarily becomes indifferent to many things that gave him joy.
— Patrick O'Brian
The back of my hand to guilt.
— Patrick O'Brian
Jack, you have debauched my sloth.
— Patrick O'Brian
The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.
— Patrick O'Brian
If I had loved her... would that be art?
— Sean Patrick O'Reilly
I have never yet known a man admit that he was either rich or asleep.
— Patrick O'Brian
When you go homeTell them of us, and say
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today. — Patrick O'Donnell
In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
— Patrick O'Brian
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
— Patrick O'Brian
Diana accepted the bait, spat out the hook with contempt, and hurried away to the stables to consult with Thomas,
— Patrick O'Brian
Nelson once said that love of his country served him for a greatcoat.
— Patrick O'Brian
We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.
— Patrick O'Brian
I slept as the person in Plutarch that ran from Marathon to Athens without a pause would have slept if he had not fallen dead, the creature.
— Patrick O'Brian
Rested, shaved, coffee'd, steaked, you will be a different man.
— Patrick O'Brian
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?
— Patrick O'Brian
Should I feel better if I were to vomit?' asked Jagiello. 'I doubt it,' said Stephen. 'It has done nothing for the Colonel.
— Patrick O'Brian
Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick. [- Jack]
— Patrick O'Brian
A virtuous esculent!
— Patrick O'Brian
The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.
— Patrick O'Brian
Clap on with both hands, sir - never say die - one more heave and we're home, safe and dry.
— Patrick O'Brian
It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You
— Patrick O'Brian
Invincible ignorance could not be enlightened; and
— Patrick O'Brian
all that wretched schoolmastering.' 'On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.
— Patrick O'Brian
Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?
— Patrick O'Brian
There never was a ship that fought well without she was a happy ship.
— Patrick O'Brian
Sometimes you receive a knock in action: it may be your death-wound or just a scratch
— Patrick O'Brian
It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
— Patrick O'Brian
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
— Patrick O'Brian
Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom.
— Patrick H. O'Neil
Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large. — Patrick O'Brian
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
— Patrick O'Brian
About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
— Patrick O'Brian
Wearing of the greenOn March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene! — Richelle E. Goodrich
It must be a weary life, being in a permanent state of rage or at least at half-cock.
— Patrick O'Brian
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...
— Patrick O'Brian
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
— Patrick O'Brian
Tired with the Labour of Far Travel We Have Come unto Our Own Home O
— Patrick Taylor
One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.
— Patrick O'Brian
Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun.
— Patrick O'Brian
Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy.
— Patrick O'Brian
Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.
— Patrick O'Brian
St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.
— Conan O'Brien
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
— Patrick O'Brian
You do not mean there is danger of peace?, cried Jack.
— Patrick O'Brian
She is remarkably dry,' he said to Stephen who, preferring to die in the open, had crept up on deck,
— Patrick O'Brian
He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number.
— Patrick O'Brian
was an officer holding out his sword,
— Patrick O'Brian
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
— Patrick O'Brian
He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Any innocent pleasure is a real good: there are not so many of them.
— Patrick O'Brian
It's simply this:the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss. — Richelle E. Goodrich
Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;
— Patrick O'Brian
Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
— Patrick O'Brian
