Patrick O'Brian Citations
Patrick O'Brian: Citations en anglais
“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
Patrick O'Brian The Hundred Days
Source: The Hundred Days
Patrick O'Brian livre Master and Commander
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.”
“Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
HMS Surprise (1973)
Source: H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian livre Post Captain
Source: Post Captain (1972)
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
Patrick O'Brian livre The Commodore
Source: The Commodore (1995)
“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”
Patrick O'Brian livre Master and Commander
"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)
Patrick O'Brian livre The Unknown Shore
The Unknown Shore (1959).
Patrick O'Brian livre Master and Commander
"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.”
Patrick O'Brian livre Desolation Island
Desolation Island (1979)
