Farley Mowat Quotes

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.

I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy.

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that pirates did wear eye patches and have peg legs and have brightly colored beads. I never knew what the beads were for. They really were for frightening and terrifying their prey.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

In every war, there's looting.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

Pirates have always fascinated me.

Where there is a sea there are pirates.

I have not come here for such reasons. I have come to take away their gold.

I carried off his silver, gold, alabaster possessions, … and much bronze property, his palace women and his daughters, … his wagons, his oxen, his sheep, and his valuable tribute which like the stars of heaven, had no number.

There's always a little jump to your heart when you realize you've got looting.

I love pirates, and I'm a big fan of the Johnny Depp films.

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

Pirates did not store all their treasures in treasure chests, then bury them and draw maps to them. That's a movie invention. In reality, pirates spent their money as fast as they could steal it because they knew they were living on borrowed time. They didn't want to wait around to enjoy the money.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.