Jack Aubrey Quotes

#1. What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?"
"Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

Patrick O'Brian

#2. It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Jeff Bezos

#3. Russell Crowe as Capt. Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, .. most unlikely.

Peter Weir

#4. Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

Yann Martel

#5. Better than a shove in the eye with a dry stick. [- Jack]

Patrick O'Brian

#6. I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

Lesslie Newbigin

#7. Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.

Adam Gidwitz

#8. Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want.

Brenna Yovanoff

#9. That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

Patrick O'Brian

#10. To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.

Elsa Triolet

#11. If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?

Confucius

#12. For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...

Patrick O'Brian

#13. People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Ellen Barkin

#14. Well, there are the letter I deliver to the monks, and other things, too: tea and dishwashing soap, paraffin candles, tins of powered Ovaltine ...

Christine Brodien-Jones

#15. The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,

Stewart Stafford

#16. Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him.

Clive James

#17. I love you, I'll never stop.

Ann Brashares

#18. You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

#19. I believe in freedom of speech, but I believe we should also have the right to comment on freedom of speech.

Stockwell Day

#20. Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!

Patrick O'Brian

#21. Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ...

Francoise Sagan