The 50 Most Inspiring and Famous Pirate Quotes

Famous Pirate Quotes – When people think of pirates, many think of fictional pirate characters first. However, many forget that there was a time period where real pirates sailed the seas. There were many historical pirates, both male and female, that have left their mark in history. While not everyone knows every pirate of the past, these historical figures have said their share of memorable lines. Some of these lines are more famous than others. If you’re interested in learning more about different pirate characters, here are some Famous Pirate Quotes to know:

• “Pirates plunder the rich under the cover of their own courage.”
  – “Black” Sam Bellamy
  
•  “I am a man of fortune and must seek my fortune.” 
  – Captain Henry Avery
  
• “It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.”
  – Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach
  
• “If there’s a man among ye, ye’ll come up and fight like the man ye are to be!”
  –  Mary Read
  
• “Under the leadership of a man you have all chosen to flee. We shall see how you prove yourselves under the hand of a woman.”
  – Madame Ching
  
• “Heaven, you fool? Did you ever hear of any pirates going thither? Give me hell, it’s a merrier place.”
  – Thomas Sutton
  
• “There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.”
  – Bartholomew Roberts
  
•  “I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn’t be hanged like a dog.”
  – Anne Bonny
  
• “Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship’s hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o’re the sea.”
  – Captain John Phillips
  
• “In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labor; in this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power.”
  – Bartholomew ‘Black Bart’ Roberts
  
• “I am a free prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world, as he who has a hundred sail of ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field.”
  – Black Sam Bellamy
  
• “Let’s jump on board, and cut them to pieces.”
  – Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach
  
• “My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.”
  – William Kidd
  
• “Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.”
  – Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach
  
• “If you’ll turn sober, and mind your business, perhaps in time I may make you one of my Lieutenants, if not, here’s a boat alongside and you shall be set ashore.”
  – Captain Henry Avery

Famous Pirate Quotes from Fictional Characters

• “You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course! Stick to it, no matter the squalls.”
  – Long John Silver, ‘Treasure Planet’
  
• “Take what you can, give nothing back.”
  – Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
  
• “The truth is far too much fun.”
  – Captain Hook, Hook
  
• “The only two things a pirate’ll run for is money and public office.”
  – ‘Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island’
  
• “You’re either born a pirate or not!”
  – Yellowbeard (1983)
  
• “The sea, Frederic, is a jealous mistress. But she is her own reward. Believe me, you’ve missed nothing.”
  – The Pirate King, ‘The Pirate Movie’
  
• “When the king brands us, pirates, he doesn’t mean to make us adversaries. He doesn’t mean to make us criminals. He means to make us monsters.”
  – Captain Flint, ‘Black Sails’
  
• “Fate has brought us together again. Well, actually, buried treasure and pirates brought us together.”
  – Kermit the Frog as Captain Abraham Smollet, ‘Muppet Treasure Island’
  
• “If I don’t find some means to make the fifth a quiet and cozy voyage, I’d rather sink to the Devil’s doorstep than call myself cap’n another year.”
  – Edward Thatch, ‘Black Sails’
  
• “I don’t believe I can find anywhere else on earth–a big prize. And with it freedom. From water, from hunger, from wages.” – John Silver, ‘Black Sails’
  
• “Protecting what we cherish most is the reason why we formed this pirate crew.”
  – Usopp, ‘One Piece’
  
• “You’ll not forget what I done good, not any more than you’ll forget the bad.”
  – Long John Silver, Treasure Island
  
• “Betrayin’s all part of piratin’. If you don’t know that you’re not even close to being a pirate.”
  – Yellowbeard (1983)
  
• “It is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out.”
  – Jack Sparrow, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
  
• “Ha-ha-ha! You wouldn’t dare fight old Hook man-to-man. You’d fly away like a cowardly sparrow!”
  – Captain Hook, ‘Peter Pan’

Quotes About and From Pirates

• “Vile and dissolute creatures, the lot of them. I intend to see that any man who sails under a pirate flag or wears a pirate brand gets what he deserves: a short drop and a sudden stop.”
  – Norrington, Pirates of the Caribbean
  
• “I’ve had it with wobbly-legged, rum-soaked pirates!”
  – Elizabeth Swann, Pirates of the Caribbean
  
• “We have been boarded by four armed pirates. You know the drill. We stay hidden no matter what.”
  – ‘Captain Phillips’
  
• “You poor thing. Pirates. You mean like walking the plank? Buried treasure? Hack, slash, off with his head, and the Jolly Richard, and everything?”
  – Mabel, ‘The Pirate Movie’
  
• “I’ve just had a sublime vision. All the jagged parts of my life have come together to form a complete and mystical… whole.”
  – Captain Hook, ‘Hook’
  
• “Nobody will believe it’s possible until we show them.”
  – Captain Flint, ‘Black Sails’
  
• “The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.”
  – Jack Sparrow, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
  
• “My wealth and treasures? If you want it, I’ll let you have it. Look for it, I left all of it at that place!”
  – Gol D. Roger, ‘One Piece’
  
•  “I don’t really want to be on this crew a day longer than is absolutely necessary. I don’t want to be a pirate. I’m not interested in the life.”
  – John Silver, ‘Black Sails’
  
• “Spanish pirates! Vagabonds and lummoxes! What are they doing in our Caribbean, I’d like to know? Don’t they have their own sea to pillage and plunder?”
  – Jack Sparrow, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’

Inspirational and Memorable Quotes by Pirates

• “One soul is not equal to another.”
  – Davy Jones, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ 
  
• “Revenge may sate your being, but don’t misunderstand me, my dear. It’s an end, not a beginning.”
  – Captain Killian Hook, ‘Once Upon a Time’
  
• “A good dream, is better than a shitty reality.”
  – Blackbeard
  
• “Honestly, it’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly stupid.”
  – Jack Sparrow, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’
  
• “In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it.”
  – Captain Flint, ‘Black Sails’
  
• “Forgetting is like a wound. The wound may heal but it has already left a scar.”
  – Monkey Luffy, ‘One Piece’
  
• “Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
  – Dread Pirate Roberts, ‘The Princess Bride’
  
• “If you choose to lock your heart away, you’ll lose it for certain.”
  – Jack Sparrow, ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’
  
• “I built this from nothing. And none of it is real.”
  – Max, ‘Black Sails’
  
•  “All men are sheep. And that an old wolf like me deserves every ounce of blood he draws.” – Bartholomew Roberts, ‘Assassin’s Creed Black’

If you want to explore more famous quotes, you should check out our “Famous Quotes from the Art of War” and “Famous Quotes by the Founding Fathers.”