Frederick Marryat Quotes

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

White lies are ushers to black ones.

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid.

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...