Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last.

I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.