I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.
Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras – ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don’t signify, much.
You do not mean there is danger of peace?”, cried Jack.
He had been quite unprepared for this particular blow, striking under every conceivable kind of armour, and for some minutes he could hardly bear the pain, but sat there blinking in the sun. ‘Christ,’ he said at last. ‘Another day.
There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.
Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected – like love…
The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.
The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.
What’s wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?””Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
The more a victory cost, the more it was esteemed.
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking – the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.