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Horatio Hornblower



  • "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."
    - "Napoleon Bonaparte" from "Hornblower During a Crisis" by C.S. Forester

  • “Call no man happy until he is dead.”
    - “someone or other” from “Hornblower During a Crisis” in “The Last Encounter” by C.S. Forester

  • “Life was a succession of pills that had to be swallowed"."
    - “Horatio Hornblower” from “Hornblower and the ‘Atropos’”, by C.S. Forester, Ch. 3

  • “If variety was the spice of life, thought Hornblower, his present existence must be an Oriental curry."
    - “Horatio Hornblower” from “Hornblower and the ‘Atropos’”, by C.S. Forester, Ch. 14

  • "Each of us can find a maggot in our past which will happily devour our futures."
    - "Horatio Hornblower" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Fire Ships"

  • "I would consider it my duty to help your release from this world."
    - "Horatio Hornblower" from "Horatio Hornblower" in "The Fire Ships"

  • “I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant”
    - “Lord Edrington” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “The Wrong War”

  • “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
    - “Captain Sawyer” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “Mutiny” (taken from “King Henry” from “King Henry IV Part 2”, by William Shakespeare, Act III, scene i)

  • “It's not history that concerns me, Horatio. It's the future. It's far more uncertain.”
    - “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in "Mutiny”

  • "A hit, a palpable hit."
    - “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in "Retribution" (taken from “Osric” from “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene ii)

  • “Poor Horatio, so quick to give, so slow to accept the simplest gift.”
    - “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “Retribution”




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