Top 30 Frederick Marryat Quotes
#2. Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.
Frederick Marryat
#3. There is an old saying, that there is honour amongst thieves, and so it often proves.
Frederick Marryat
#5. The pen is a poor exchange for the long-barreled gun." "It does more execution, nevertheless,
Frederick Marryat
#6. I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.
Frederick Marryat
#7. Thus did Jack Easy make the best use that he could of his strength, and become, as it were, the champion and security
Frederick Marryat
#8. Horses, and all animals indeed, know that there is no place like home; it is a pity that men who consider themselves much wiser, have not the same consideration,
Frederick Marryat
#10. Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.
Frederick Marryat
#11. Poor men ... always make love better than those who are rich, because, having less to care about, and not being puffed up with their own consequence, they are not so selfish and think much more of the lady than of themselves.
Frederick Marryat
#12. Women are riddles - I only argued upon the common sense of the thing.
Frederick Marryat
#13. There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.
Frederick Marryat
#14. All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.
Frederick Marryat
#15. it is an old saying, that you must not work a willing horse to death.
Frederick Marryat
#16. here I am, after having been a warrior and a prince, cook, steward and everything else, boiling kettle for de young gentlemen.
Frederick Marryat
#18. There is a little bit of snobbery with casting, and unless you're a really successful comedian like Ruth Jones, you don't get to be in the drama side of things.
Rhys Thomas
#19. When you're that low on the totem pole, you sometimes think you're so unimportant that no one can hear you.
Mindy Kaling
#21. I always loved that old song 'Banks of the Ohio' - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
Dolly Parton
#22. Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.
Jim Gilmore
#25. Young ladies ... who fall in love, never consider whether there is sufficient "to make the pot boil" - probably because young ladies in love lose their appetites, and, not feeling inclined to eat at that time, they imagine that love will always supply the want of food.
Frederick Marryat
#27. Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.
Frederick Marryat
#28. Philosophy is said to console a man under disappointment, although Shakespeare asserts that it is no remedy for a toothache; so Mr Easy turned philosopher, the very best profession a man can take up who is fit for nothing else.
Frederick Marryat
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