White lies are ushers to black ones.

- 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 …

- Frederick Marryat

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white li…

- Frederick Marryat

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

- Frederick Marryat

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the g…

- 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

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…

- Frederick Marryat

If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation…

- Frederick Marryat