92 Pirate Quotes
Following is our list of pirate quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about pirate ships.
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Famous Pirate Quotes
I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator. — Kim Dotcom
He who plunders with a little boat is a pirate; he who plunders with a fleet is a conqueror — Greek Proverbs
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves. — William Bolitho
The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. — Mark Twain
I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around. — Neil Young
Any port in a storm. — Scottish Proverbs
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate — Johnny Depp
Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is. — Seth Godin
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. — David Lloyd George
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. — H. L. Mencken
Piracy has destroyed the domestic market. — Zhang Yimou
It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor. — Steve Jobs
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. — Herman Melville
The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates. — Gabe Newell
Short Pirate Quotes
- Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn. — Jaime Murray
- Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone. — Karl Pilkington
- Where there is a sea there are pirates — Greek Proverbs
- Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. — Brooks Atkinson
- Every once in a while, someone gives me $20 for the games they pirated in their youth. — John Carmack
- All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams. — Philip Seymour Hoffman
- I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog. — Anne Bonny
- Let's jump on board, and cut them to pieces. — Blackbeard
- A merry life and a short one shall be my motto. — Bartholomew Roberts
- I never thought I'd ever do a pirate bar, to be honest with you. — Jon Taffer
Pirate Image Quotes
Real Pirate Quotes
As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me. — Henry Adams
The real truth was taken by pirates and is at the bottom of the ocean. You will have to go deep to find it. — James Dye
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it. — Will Oldham
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate. — Will Oldham
I hadn't mentioned, but Ching Shih is a pretty villainous character. She is a real person, but she was a pirate commander, so she probably murdered a lot of people. — Anita Sarkeesian
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel. — Charlie Cox
Pirate Ships Quotes
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up. — Charles M. Schulz
A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor. — Noam Chomsky
A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. — Johnny Depp
It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood. — Corey Feldman
My fantasy football team got mixed up in another fantasy and now they're stuck on a pirate ship with a chick in a Catwoman suit. — Dana Gould
Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. — William Shakespeare
What's a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy — Bo Burnham
Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag. — Bela Kiraly
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor. — Saint Augustine
Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although I’m not a pirate, and she’s not my captured princess. — Simone Elkeles
Pirate Radio Quotes
Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens. — Richard Curtis
My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on. — Robert Palmer
Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting and you don't need any record companies. The way I do everything comes from that, the impact of those two things. — Kieran Hebden
The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors. — Roy Ayers
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast. — Michael Caine
I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio. — Bill Nighy
People Writing About Pirate
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Greek Proverbs |
176 | 1 |
 Kim Dotcom |
46 | 10 |
 William Bolitho |
16 | 218 |
 Friedrich Nietzsche |
2473 | 32550 |
 Mark Twain |
2433 | 47813 |
 Neil Young |
268 | 1549 |
More Pirate Quotes
In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst, is only a sour look or two at choking. No, a merry life and a short one, shall be my motto. — Bartholomew Roberts
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters. — Andrew Lloyd Webber
You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it. — Richard Curtis
Just gave Jordan Mechner a very late $40 for the pirated copies of Karateka and Prince of Persia in my youth. — John Carmack
I follow Rick Falkvinge, who founded the Swedish Pirate party and was one of the very early adopters of Bitcoin. — Max Keiser
I played cops and robbers and pirates and all the rest when I was a kid, but I didn't want to grow up and be an actor and play cops and robbers and pirates. I wanted to grow up and be that, be cops and robbers and pirates. — Sayings
I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today. — Steven Levitan
I never think about the next movie. I always think about the situation I'm in now, but you do think about an arc someone can go. I love Johnny Depp, I love "Pirates of the Caribbean", but I never wanted to play the same character over and over again. — Alex Pettyfer
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve. — Anne Bonny
I started DJing soundclashes. I used to go to Jamaica a lot. I was like a hip-hop sound boy, where I took the dancehall culture and mixed it up with the hip-hop as well. I kept going, going, and I got real hot in the streets of Miami - you know, doing pirate radio - then ended up doing 99 Jamz, the big station out there. — DJ Khaled
I never wanted to be a dancer. It's true! I wanted to be a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates. — Gene Kelly
There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power. — Bartholomew Roberts
Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter! — Bartholomew Roberts
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. — Terry Pratchett
Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexual marriage, even such a woman who is a freak in our society needs a home... The only characteristic freaks share is our knowledge that we don't fit in. — Kathy Acker
The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race — Frank Sinatra
We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor. — Benedict Groeschel
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. — Walt Disney
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. — John Pilger
I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? Put your pirate patch on and go on an adventure because you only have one life to live. — Kathleen Hanna
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate. — Bernard Williams
My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer. — Johnny Depp
Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe. — Geoffrey Rush
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