"There was a single blue line of crayon drawn across every wall in the house. What does it mean? I asked. A pirate needs the sight of the sea, he said and then he pulled his eye patch down and turned and sailed away."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)

"My sympathies, friend. You've no manner of luck at all."
— referring to Pirates of the Caribbean

"It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Drink up, me hearties yo-ho!
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— Captain Jack Sparrow

"I don't think much of our profession, but contrasted with respectability, 'tis comparitivly honset"
— The Pirate King -- Pirates of Penzance

"I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child, I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now, I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or, by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing and, in order to go to see, one must be a pirate."
— Kathy Acker

"There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediatly."
— Dave Barry

"They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference; they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage; had ye not better make one of us, than sneak after the arses of those villains for employment?"
— Samuel Bellamy

"Here's your first problem," he said, pointing at a sentence. "'Religion is the opium of the people.' Well, I don't know about people, but I think you'll find that the opium of pirates is actual opium."
— Gideon Defoe (The Pirates! In an Adventure with Communists: A Novel)

"Thems that die'll be the lucky ones."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"'That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.'"
— Gideon Defoe (The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists: A Novel)

"One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)