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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

It has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room — Patrick O'Brian

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

You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of. — Patrick Ness

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

Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death. Auntie Mame — Patrick Dennis

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 home
Tell 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

I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money — 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 green
On 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

If a writer is not offending someone, then they are not doing their job. — Patrick O'Neil

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

Let us drink to the renewed success of Irish arms, and confusion to the Pope. — Patrick O'Brian

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

Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love... — Patrick O'Brian

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

He had never wandered this far from the morphine, never sensed such a weakening hold over breath and muscle. And mind. — Patrick W. O'Bryon