Ted Anthony Roberts > Quotes

“Is this seat taken?” she asked him again, tapping on a chair at the table.
“That’s where my Rum is sitting. He is my guest!”
“But the bottle is in your hand, and not in this chair,” she spoke, pointing out the bottle.
“So, it is!” he answered, looking at his Rum. Then, looking back at her: “But he was invited to this party.”
― Ted Anthony Roberts, Captain Skull: From the Memoirs of Sir Charles of Riley

“When handled in a civilized fashion, Piracy on the high seas could become more of a wise business decision than of a sheer, chaotic, unorganized criminal act. And I saw very little difference in what we were doing than the royals and courtiers were doing in the midst of cities, and of calling what they were doing legal and legitimate.”
― Ted Anthony Roberts, Captain Skull: From the Memoirs of Sir Charles of Riley

“Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but the uplift of a beggar!”
― Ted Anthony Roberts, Captain Skull: From the Memoirs of Sir Charles of Riley

“There were many of the upper and noble classes who had also found this alluring lifestyle completely irresistible; so many, many folks – from all over the world – had made their way over to the Caribbean for one reason or other, to readily embrace this attractiveness which it had produced for them!”
― Ted Anthony Roberts, Captain Skull: From the Memoirs of Sir Charles of Riley