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How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.
— Patrick O'Brian
Tis well to be merry and wise,'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new. — Charles Robert Maturin
I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...
— Patrick O'Brian
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
— Charles Robert Maturin
Come all you thoughtless young men,a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian
It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.
— Charles Robert Maturin
The soul shares not the body's test.
— Charles Robert Maturin
That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
— Patrick O'Brian
If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.
— Patrick O'Brian
Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
— Patrick O'Brian
Gluppit the prawling strangles, there!
— Patrick O'Brian
We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.
— Basil W. Maturin
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings. — Charles Robert Maturin
You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.
— Maturin Murray Ballou
It is better to hear the thunder than to watch the cloud.
— Charles Robert Maturin
No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
— Basil W. Maturin
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.
— Charles Robert Maturin
A malady Preys on my heart that med'cine cannot reach. — Charles Robert Maturin
Singular sentiment of pride, that can erect its trophies amid the grave.
— Charles Robert Maturin
The back of my hand to guilt.
— Patrick O'Brian
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
— Patrick O'Brian
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
— Patrick O'Brian
Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
— Charles Robert Maturin
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
— Charles Robert Maturin
He that would make a pun would pick a pocket.
— Patrick O'Brian
Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
— Patrick O'Brian
For mine is the old belief ... There is a soil in every leaf.
— Maturin Murray Ballou
Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.
— Charles Robert Maturin
A virtuous esculent!
— Patrick O'Brian
