Top 25 Stephen Maturin Quotes
#1. That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
Patrick O'Brian
#3. In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.
Diane Ackerman
#4. Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now
where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.
Doris Lessing
#7. If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
Saint John Chrysostom
#8. If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.
Patrick O'Brian
#9. How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.
Patrick O'Brian
#11. I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...
Patrick O'Brian
#12. When a man does good work out of all proportion to his pay, in seven cases out of nine there is a woman at the back of the virtue.
The two exceptions must have suffered from sunstroke.
Rudyard Kipling
#13. Fruits are snacks, which are rich in vitamins, and can be eaten the whole day.
Celine Dion
#14. Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson
#15. What happens if one day we're standing in a kitchen, dishwasher empty, oven and air full, you're washing and I'm drying, and the ring slips down the drain and flushes out to sea?
Darnell Lamont Walker
#16. On one 50-mile summer hike, Gates demonstrated the persistence and tenacity that was to be his trademark later in life.
James Wallace
#18. Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#20. I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.
Audrey Niffenegger
#21. Looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.'
'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes
Patrick O'Brian
#22. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Patrick O'Brian
#23. I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.
Sophie Calle
#25. I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
Randy Harrison
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