Famous quotes containing the words dread and/or pirate:
“But that two-handed engine at the door
Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more.”
Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass’d”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)