Frederick Marryat Quotes

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

Frederick Marryat
It's just six of one and half a dozen of the other.

Frederick Marryat
I am sure the Americans can fix nothing without a drink. If you meet, you drink; if you part, you drink; if you make acquaintance, you drink.... They commence it early in life, and they continue it, until they drop into the grave.

Frederick Marryat
But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

Frederick Marryat
I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons — because I'm bred to the sea.

Frederick Marryat
A nurse, of her llegitimate baby:
If you please, ma'am, it was a very little one.

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

Frederick Marryat
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.'

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

Frederick Marryat
A modern philosopher, with his hypothesis, is like a man possessed with a devil in times of yore; and it is not to be cast out by any human means, that I know of.

Frederick Marryat
An hypothesis is only a habit - a habit of looking through a glass of one peculiar colour, which imparts its hue to all around it.

Frederick Marryat