“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
Patrick O'Brian The Hundred Days
Источник: The Hundred Days
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Patrick O'Brian книга Master and Commander
Источник: Master and Commander (1970)
Контексте: “But you know as well as I, 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.”
“I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.”
Patrick O'Brian книга Post Captain
Источник: Post Captain
“Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
HMS Surprise (1973)
Источник: H.M.S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian книга Post Captain
Источник: Post Captain (1972)
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
Patrick O'Brian книга The Commodore
Источник: The Commodore (1995)
“And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?”
Patrick O'Brian книга Master and Commander
"She must have three square-rigged masts, sir," they told him kindly, "and a bowsprit; and the masts must be in three - lower, top and topgallant - for we never call a polacre a ship."
Master and Commander (1970)
Patrick O'Brian книга The Unknown Shore
The Unknown Shore (1959).
Patrick O'Brian книга Master and Commander
"James, I trust there was no mens rea in that remark?"
Master and Commander (1970) ("rears and vices" is O'Brian's homage to Jane Austen's Mansfield Park)
“My God, oh my God," he said. "Six hundred men.”
Patrick O'Brian книга Desolation Island
Desolation Island (1979)