Captain Horatio Hornblower Quotes

“when next you enforce Britannia’s dominion of the seas.”
― C.S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower Saga, #1 Beat to Quarters / #2 Ship of the Line / #3 Flying Colours

“the trinkets of the tyrant can never mean anything to a Knight of the Holy Ghost.”
― C.S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower Saga, #1 Beat to Quarters / #2 Ship of the Line / #3 Flying Colours

“as soon as the stimulus of necessity was applied.”
― C.S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower Saga, #1 Beat to Quarters / #2 Ship of the Line / #3 Flying Colours

“Hornblower, looking after them felt a sudden feeling of hatred for them and the race they represented. They were a proud nation, yet never so proud as to disdain favors from others, hating foreigners only a little more than they hated each other, ignorant, misgoverned, misusing the wealth with which nature had endowed their country; Spain was a natural prey to any stronger nation.”
― C.S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower Saga, #1 Beat to Quarters / #2 Ship of the Line / #3 Flying Colours

“the Seas are Britannia’s where no Frog-eating Frenchman can show his Face?”
― C.S. Forester, Captain Horatio Hornblower (Horatio Hornblower Saga, #1 Beat to Quarters / #2 Ship of the Line / #3 Flying Colours