#aubreyism

[maturinsane]

aubreyisms my beloved

[medic981]

Jack Aubrey: "...they have chosen their cake, and must lie in it."

Stephen Maturin: "You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it".

Jack: "No, no, it is not quite that, neither. I mean - I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen."

[thekenobee]

The wheeze I WHEEZED

[problematically-vague]

when your bff describes you as "a man Lucifer could not hold a book, bell, or candle to for pride"

re: Stephen Maturin, from Patrick O'Brian's The Nutmeg of Consolation (the Aubrey-Maturin Series)

[medic981]

Stephen Maturin: "I will observe, Jack, that a bird in the hand waits for no man, as you often say yourself."

Also Stephenn to Jack: "There is something to be said for making hay when no clouds obscure the sun; and that it is your rolling stone that gets the worm."

Stephen is trolling Jack at this point.

[formermaidofhorror]

*sighs* oh Jack...loved this little nod to the books.

[fuckyeahprizemoney-blog]

Autres pays, autre merde

HMS Surprise, by Patrick O'Brian

"other countries, other shit"

[fuckyeahprizemoney-blog]

Autres pays, autre merde

HMS Surprise - Patrick O'Brian

lit. "other countries, other shit" What he meant: Autres pays, autres moeurs, "other countries, other customs"