Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom…

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike! This was what some of his sailors, reported in British newspapers at the time, claimed he had said; Jones's official report merely stated that he had answered "in the most determined negative".

I have not yet begun to fight!

In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, …

I am the greatest landowner in the world.