Quotes on Horatio

Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

Just sick enough to be totally confident

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

I cannot command winds and weather.

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.

I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been through Nick Carter, Horatio Alger, Bertha M. Clay and the whole slew of dime novelists in addition to some really constructive reading. I do not regret the trash. It has harmed me in no way. It was a help, because acquiring the reading habit early is the important thing. Taste and natural development will take care of the rest later on.

I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!