Swashbuckling Quotes

“For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.”
― Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

“It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!”
― Carrie Vaughn, Steel

“Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one like you.”
― Eoin Colfer, Airman

“And so,' smiled the Witcher, 'I have no choice? I have to enter into a pact with you, a pact which should someday become the subject of a painting, and become a sorcerer? Give me a break. I know a little about the theory of heredity. My father, as I discovered with no little difficulty, was a wanderer, a churl, a troublemaker and a swashbuckler. My genes on the spear side may be dominant over the genes on the distaff side. The fact that I can swash a buckler pretty well seems to confirm that.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Czas pogardy

“...she forced herself to relax her shoulders and affect a tone of bored insouciance that the Widow would have approved, and said, "I shall need a map. And a pistol.”
― Donna Thorland, The Turncoat

“Sir Richard Francis Burton was a cross between Indiana Jones and Captain Jack Sparrow, with perhaps a little piece of the warrior-poet Aragorn from Lord of the Rings thrown in for good measure. Or maybe I should rephrase that; all these swashbuckling film heroes, including probably John Rambo, may well have been loosely based on Burton and his life”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“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

“Follow that coffeehouse.”
― Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night

“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

“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

“I lifted a brow. “You’re not going to try to blow up our ship, are you?”
― Katherine McIntyre, The Airship Also Rises

“A moving object will continue in a straight line unless something happens to knock it off its course. Some say this is also true of stories. (From Aldebran Boswell's Book of Scientific Knowledge)”
― Claire Fayers, The Voyage to Magical North

“Imagine the stories if we succeed.”
― Claire Fayers, The Voyage to Magical North