Pirate Latitudes Quotes

“I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“but one never really understood life in the New World until confronted with the actual rude experience.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“There are no pirates in Port Royal”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“Hunter released the man’s head. Hacklett sat back, and wiped the gravy from his face with his napkin. “There now,” Almont said. “A moment of unpleasantness has been averted. Shall we take dessert?” Hunter looked around the table. Hacklett was still wiping his face. Morton was staring at him with open astonishment. And Mrs. Hacklett was looking at Hunter and when she caught his eye, she licked her lip.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“But we did not know our position, having been blown for forty-eight hours.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“He coughed, started to dress, and paused to urinate out of the window onto the street below. A shouted curse drifted up to him.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“Sir James knew a thing or two about witchcraft. Witches had eyes of strange color. Witches were surrounded by cold draughts. Their flesh was cold as that of a reptile, and they had an extra tit.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“From time to time, an official in one of the larger cities of England would arrange for convict women to be sent to Jamaica, a simple ruse to avoid the expense of jailing them at home.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“There were also a handful of legitimate merchants’ shops, and a church at the north end of town, which was, as Sir William Lytton had so nicely phrased it, “seldom frequented.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“The closely packed buildings were wood or brick, rude in construction and crude in purpose: an endless succession of taverns, grog shops, gaming places, and bawdy houses.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“Undeniably, Port Royal was a wealthy town — some said it was the richest in the world — but that did not make it pleasant.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“FOR A MAN with the gout, even a brief journey by coach over cobbled streets is agonizing.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“For wherever men gather, there are rules of conduct.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“Hunter recognized the old seaman’s trick for locating the eye of a hurricane. If you stood with your arms out and your back to the wind, the eye of the storm was always two points forward of the left hand’s direction.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“lime”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes

“The mosquitoes were a formidable enemy, coming in thick clouds so dense as to be almost palpable, obscuring each man’s vision of those near him. The insects buzzed and whined around them, clinging to every part of their bodies, getting into ears and nose and mouth.”
― Michael Crichton, Pirate Latitudes