Peter Earle famous quotes

This villainous heterogenous mass of ocean highwaymen are the very ejectment of the four quarters of the globe.
-- Peter Earle

#Ocean #Four #Quarters

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.
-- Peter Earle

#Two #Pirate #Branches

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just in English waters but throughout the world.
-- Peter Earle

#Country #Years #Water

The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.
-- Peter Earle

#Practice #Yield #Pirate

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.

Ive only dressed in drag three or four times.

We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed.

The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.