Jacoby I’m gonna teach you the meaning of pain. Elizabeth You like pain Try wearing a corset.

Will We’re going to steal a ship That ship Jack Commandeer. We’re going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term.

Jack When you marooned me on that god forsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate I’m Captain Jack Sparrow.

Will Where’s Elizabeth Jack She’s safe, just like I promised. She’s all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we’re all men of our word really… except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman.

Jack You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before

Jack Me I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. 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.

Barbossa For too long I’ve been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I’ve been starving to death and haven’t died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman’s flesh. You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner. You’re in one.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren’t really there.

The Lord is my light, and my salvation whom shall I fear

Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

The true science and study of man is man.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it he who bestow should never remember it.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

A winner never whines.

When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.