C. S. Forester Quotes

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"I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower." That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

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Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister — they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

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The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.

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I'd rather be in trouble for having done something than for not having done anything.

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C. S. Forester

C. S. Forester

Born: August 27, 1899

Died: April 2, 1966 (aged 66)

Bio: Cecil Louis Troughton Smith, known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S.

Known for:

The Happy Return (1937)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950)
A Ship of the Line (1938)
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952)
Flying Colours (1938)

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