crew quotes

We were a ghastly crew.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.5.

The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew isgambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you were born in it?

- George Bernard Shaw
  Captain Shotover. Heartbreak House, act 3.