Pirate quotes

“- Norrington: You are without doubt the worst pirate I've ever heard of.
- Jack Sparrow: But you have heard of me.”
Jack Davenport - Norrington
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“- Young Elizabeth: I think it'd be rather exciting to meet a pirate.
- Norrington: Think again, Miss Swann. Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop.”
Lucinda Dryzek - Young Elizabeth
Jack Davenport - Norrington

“If I don't kill a man every now and then, they forget who I am.”
Ian McShane - Blackbeard

“It's not the destination so much as the journey, they say.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“- The Great Gonzo: I thought pirates had talking parrots as pets.
- Long John Silver: Talking... parrots?
- Bad Polly: What an imagination. First pirates, now talking parrots, what's next - a singing, dancing mouse with his own amusement park?”
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo
Tim Curry - Long John Silver
Kevin Clash - Bad Polly

“- Geoffrey Thorpe: Is a thief an Englishman who steals?
- Doña Maria: It's anybody who steals... whether it's piracy or robbing women.”
Errol Flynn - Geoffrey Thorpe
Brenda Marshall - Doña Maria

We have been boarded by four armed pirates. You know the drill. We stay hidden no matter what. I don't want any hostages. We stay locked down until help arrives. No one comes out until you hear the non-duress password from me which is "suppertime".
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips

“On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the Etherium were calm and peaceful, the great merchant ships, with their cargos of Arcturian solar crystals, felt safe and secure. Little did they suspect that they were persued by... pirates. And the most feared of all these pirates was the notorious Captain Nathaniel Flint.”
Tony Jay - Narrator

“I never flew the skull and crossed bones. That's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit all my life at sea without regard for any man's law. That's not to say I didn't have my morals and standards. I got morals and standards. I never killed anyone who didn't have it coming. I never cheated an honest man. I never pillaged and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“- Captain Bully Hayes: Are you putting down in that book that I'm a pirate?
- Writer: Well, in a manner of speaking, I suppose one could say that I am, yes.
- Captain Bully Hayes: Good! Because I am! And a damn good one too.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Captain Bully Hayes

“- Capitaine Chevalle: There has not been a king since the first brethren court, and that is not likely to change!
- Elizabeth Swann: Why not?
- Gibbs: Because the pirate king is elected by popular vote...
- Captain Hector Barbossa: ...and each pirate only votes for himself.”
Marcel Iures - Capitaine Chevalle
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann
Kevin McNally - Gibbs
Geoffrey Rush - Captain Hector Barbossa

“The pirate Yellowbeard captured many other galleons, killing over five-hundred men in cold blood. He would tear the captains hearts out and swallow them whole. Often forcing his victims to eat their own lips, he was caught and imprisoned... for tax evasion.”

“- Pirate King: Tell him men, have you missed anything these 20 years at sea?
- Other pirates: Sex!”
Ted Hamilton - Pirate King

“- Elinor Dashwood: You will inherit your fortune. We cannot even earn ours.
- Edward Ferrars: Perhaps Margaret is right.
- Elinor Dashwood: Right?
- Edward Ferrars: Piracy is our only option.”
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars

“This is no way for grown men to settle... oh, fine! Let's just haul out our swords and start banging away at each other! That will solve everything! I've had it! I've had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked pirates!”

Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann

“The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do. For instance, you can accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or you can't. But pirate is in your blood, boy, so you'll have to square with that some day.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“- Frederic: Now, less than a hundred years ago, pirates used to really operate around here... raping and pillaging!
- Mabel Stanley: God, I'd hate to be pillaged.”
Christopher Atkins - Frederic
Kristy McNichol - Mabel Stanley

“Salvaging is saving, in a manner of speaking.”
Mackenzie Crook - Ragetti

- Elizabeth Swann: According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren...
- Barbossa: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.
Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann
Geoffrey Rush - Barbossa

“- Bad Guy: It's Porthos the Pirate!!
- D'Artagnan: Pirate?
- Porthos: I told you I was famous.”
Chris O'Donnell - D'Artagnan
Oliver Platt - Porthos

“The only two things a pirate'll run for is money and public office.”
Mel Blanc - Yosemite Sam

“- Dan: Father! We thought you were dead.
- Yellowbeard: Us Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we're dead.”
Martin Hewitt - Dan
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard

- Yellowbeard: Betrayin's all part of piratin'. If you don't know that you're not even close to being a pirate, "Prawn of my loins", my foot!
- Dan: What?
- Yellowbeard: You're either born a pirate or not! It's in the blood Dan, and it's not in your blood or you'd have betrayed me long ago!
Graham Arthur Chapman - Yellowbeard
Martin Hewitt - Dan

“- Speedy Gonzales: Help! Get it off. I can't breathe nothing but burrito!
- Daffy Duck: Well Sam, it looks like we'll have to use your wish to get the burrito off his nose. It's the only humane thing to do. Sam? Sam?
- Yosemite Sam: Too late, Duck, I already wished for a pirate ship. After I sinks a certain pesky rabbit, I'll come back and pick...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Blanc - Speedy Gonzales
Mel Blanc - Duffy Duck
Mel Blanc - Yosemite Sam

“Well I've been at sea since I was one, how the hell would I know how to ride a horse?”

Christopher Atkins - Frederic