Flying Colours Quotes

“Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and blue Garter-ribbons, were all the impressions Hornblower received.”
― C.S. Forester, Flying Colours

“Arma virumque”
― C.S. Forester, Flying Colours

“If you loved me," said Marie, "it would be terrible for me to have you go, and to know that for years we should not meet again - perhaps for ever. But as you do not, then I am glad that you are going back to your wife and child, and your ships, and your fighting. That is what you want, and I am pleased that you should have it all."
"Thank You" said Hornblower.
Still she did not look up.
"You are the sort of man," he went on, "whom women love very easily. I do not expect that I shall be the last. I don't think that you will ever love anybody, or know what it is to do so." p153”
― C.S. Forester, Flying Colours

“hard not to laugh at the sergeant’s”
― C.S. Forester, Flying Colours

“The lucky man . . . is usually the man who knows how much to leave to chance.”
― C.S. Forester, Flying Colours