Patrick O'Brian Citations
Patrick O'Brian: Citations en anglais
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
Source: The Hundred Days
Source: Master and Commander (1970)
Contexte: “But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”
Source: Post Captain
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
Source: The Commodore (1995)
“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”
"She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
Master and Commander (1970)
"James, I trust there was no mens rea in that remark?"
Master and Commander (1970) ("rears and vices" is O'Brian's homage to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)
“My God, oh my God," he said. "Six hundred men.”
Desolation Island (1979)
