“Captains of Industry.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Bk. IV, ch. 4 (chapter title).
1840s, Past and Present (1843)

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Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian… 1795–1881

Marnie Holborow Irish academic

Source: Language and Neoliberalism (2015), p. 74

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James Branch Cabell book The Cream of the Jest

Source: The Cream of the Jest (1917), Ch. 14 : Peculiar Conduct of a Personage

“Oh captain my captain”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)

“Gazzy: Captain, like the captain of a ship. And then Terror, you know, T-E-R-O-R.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold
And the mate of the Nancy brig,
And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite
And the crew of the captain's gig.”

W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo

The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell". Compare: There were three sailors of Bristol city
Who took a boat and went to sea.
But first with beef and captain's biscuits
And pickled pork they loaded she.
There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy,
And the youngest he was little Billee.
Now when they got as far as the Equator
They'd nothing left but one split pea.
W. M. Thackeray: Little Billee.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)