Memorable Quotes - POTC I
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Jack's Single Quotes
Jack: "Worry about your own fortunes, gentlemen. The deepest circle of Hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers."
Jack: "Elizabeth... I'm sorry, darling. It wouldn't have worked out between us darling. And Will? Nice hat."
Jack: "You need to find yourself a girl mate."
Jack: "A wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!"
Jack: "Elizabeth is safe, like I promised. She's going to marry the commodore, like she promised. And you're going to die for her, like you promised. So we're all men of our words except for Elizabeth who is in fact a woman."
Jack: "STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY SHIP!"
Jack: "It appears you have a leak.."
Jack: "You will always remember today as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!"
Jack: "Twenty-five percent, and I'll buy you a hat... a really big one... Commodore."
Jack: "A pearl of the King's Navy you are. Do NOT lose these!"
Jack: "Do you think it's wise, boy? Crossing blades with a Pirate?"
Jack: "You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?"
Jack: "Any man who falls behind, is left behind. Pirate's Code."
Jack: "May I ask you something? Have I ever given you reason not to trust me? Do us a favor, I know it’s difficult for you but please stay here… and try not to do anything stupid."
Jack: "What the Black Pearl really is, is freedom."
Jack: "Couldn't resist mate."
Jack: "That's interesting..."
Jack: "If you were waiting for the opportune moment... That was it."
Jack: "Me I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can alway trust to be dishonest. Honestly it's the honest ones you have to watch out for, you never can predict if they're going to do something incredibly stupid."
Jack: "When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land you forgot one very important thing, mate... I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
Jack: "You know...I've always liked you."
Jack: "Parlay! Yes that's the one!"
Jack: "Sticks and Stones, Love. I saved your life, you saved mine. We're square!"
Jack: "Do you have the courage and the fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost sudden death?"
Jack:[in mocking voice] "It must be terrible for you to be trapped here, Jack. Must be terrible for you, well it bloody is NOW!" [then sees the boat] "There'll be no living with her after this."
Jack: " Now, bring me that horizon...[humming] And really bad eggs... Drink up me 'arties yo ho! "
Jack: [Whistles] "Here doggy" [Whistles]"...It's just you and me now....Good ol' Jack...Come on....Good boy, come on....That's a good boy, come on...Bit closer, bit closer...That's it...That's it doggy, come on you filthy, slimey, mangy cat..."[noise] "NO, NO, NO, NO....I didn't mean it, I didn't...."
Jack: "How 'bout three shillings, and we forget the name."
Jack: "The man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink, the man who was sleeping drinks while listening to a proposition from the man who did the waking."
Jack: "Captain, Captain Jack Sparrow."
Jack: "I'm actually feeling rather good about this. I think we've all developed a very special bond, eh? Spiritually, ecumanically, grammatically, I want you to know I was rooting for you, know that."
Jack: "Will you be saving her then?"
Jack: "Now you can either accept that your father was a pirate and a good man or me I could just leave you there to drown. Your choice."
Jack: "Easy on the goods love."
Jack: "It's not all really that big is it?"


Will's Single Quotes
Will: "I should've told you everday from the moment I met you, I love you."
Will: "You threatened Miss Swann..."
Will: "I practice three hours a day, so that when I meet a pirate, I can KILL it"
Will: "That's not good enough!"
Will: "Aye, AVAST!"
Will: "My father was NOT a pirate!"
Will: "So this... is your able bodied crew?"
Will: "Blacksmith hands. I know...they're rough."
Will "Right were I left you. Not were I left you.."
Will "You must be the man they're looking for.."
Will "It wasn't your blood they needed. It was my father's blood. My blood. The blood of a pirate."
Will "Goodbye...Elizabeth."
Will [hits Jack with oar] "Sorry, Jack , I’m not going to be your leverage."
Will "Ask him where it is. Make a deal with him he could lead us to it."

Elizabeth's Single Quotes
Elizabeth: "Actually, I find it all fascinating."
Elizabeth: "You like pain? Try wearing a corset..".
Elizabeth: "I can't breath..."
Elizabeth: "..It's hard to say.."
Elizabeth: "Well women in London must've learned not to breath."
Elizabeth: "I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore."
Elizabeth: "It's a Pirate Medallion.."
Elizabeth: "Bloody Pirates!!"
Elizabeth: "Commodore, you don't really intend to kill my rescuer.."
Elizabeth: "No..he's a Pirate."
Elizabeth: "Look, a boy! There's a boy in the water!"
Elizabeth: "Pirate or not this man saved my life."
Elizabeth: "If you're going to shoot me, please do so without delay."
Elizabeth: "You were going to tell Barbossa about Will, in exchange for a ship."
Elizabeth: "Our bargain? WAIT...You have to take me to shore. According to the code the Order of The Breatherenth....."

Barbossa's Single Quotes
Barbossa: ""First of all, Miss Turner, returning you to shore was never part of our agreement, so I must do nothing. Second, you have to be a pirate to apply to the pirate's code and you're not. And thirdly, the Pirate's Code is more of a set of what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner."
Barbossa: "We are cursed men.."
Barbossa: "Gents you all remember Captian Jack Sparrow, kill him."
Barbossa: "You don't know what this is, do ya'.....Aztec Gold."
Barbossa: "LOOK...the moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living and so we cannot die, neither are we dead. 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 or the spray of the sea...or the warmth of a woman's flesh. You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner, you're in one."
Barbossa: "I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means no."

Cursed Pirates' Single Quotes
Cursed Pirate: "Not fair."[at the end after Will puts the bomb in the one pirate ribs.]
Cursed Pirate: "This is just like what the Greeks did at Troy. Except they was on a horse, instead of dresses... Wooden horse."
Cursed Pirate: “If one of you so much as thinks the word parley, I'll have your guts gutted!”


Combined Quotes
Elizabeth : "It's a pirate medallion."
Barbossa: "This is Aztec gold, one of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortés himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon them with his armies. But the greed of Cortés was insatiable. So the heathen gods placed upon the gold; a terrible curse. Any mortal that removes but a single piece from that stone chest shall be punished for eternity."
Elizabeth: "I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa."
Barbossa: "Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale. Buried on an Island of Dead what cannot be found except for those who know where it is. Find it, we did. There be the chest. Inside be the gold. And we took 'em all. We spent 'em and traded 'em and frittered 'em away on drink and food and pleasurable company. The more we gave 'em away, the more we came to realize? The drink would not satisfy, food turned to ash in our mouths, and all the pleasurable company in the world could not slake our lust. We are cursed men, Miss Turner. Compelled by greed, we were, but now we are consumed by it. [ Elizabeth takes a butter knife and hides it] There is one way we can end our curse. All the scattered pieces of the Aztec gold must be restored and the blood repaid. Thanks to ye, we have the final piece."
Elizabeth: "And the blood to be repaid?"
Barbossa: "That's why there?s no sense to be killin' ye. Yet. [offers her an apple] Apple? Arr. [she stabs him with the knife; he takes it out] I'm curious; after killin' me what was it you plannin' on doing next? [she runs out and sees the pirates, all decaying skeletons] Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, and so we cannot die, but neither are we dead. For too long I?ve been parched with 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. [walks out into the moonlight and reveals a skeleton] You best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner . You're in one! [drinks and it pours over his ribs, laughs and the crew laughs with him] What are ye looking at? Back to work!"

Jack: "No matter how many times you do that, the dog is never going to move."
Inmate: Well excuse me if I haven't resigned to the gallows just yet!"

Commodore: “You have to be the worst pirate I've ever heard of.”
Jack: “Ah, but you have heard of me!"

Barbossa: "Thank you Jack."
Jack: "Why, you're welcome."
Barbossa: "Not you, we named the monkey Jack."

Inmate: "The Black Pearl... I've heard stories about it...it's been preying on ships...it leaves no survivors..."
Jack: "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from, I wonder?"

Officer: "I never would 've thought of that."
Jack: "Clearly you've never been to Singapore."

Pirate: "Down to the depths with them that thought o' 'parley'."
Jack: "That'll be the French."

Will Turner: "You cheated."
Captain Jack Sparrow: "Pirate!"

Captain Jack Sparrow: "Scarlet!"
[She slaps him.]
Captain Jack Sparrow: "Not sure I deserved that."
[Sees another girl]
Captain Jack Sparrow: "Giselle!"
Giselle: "Who was she?"
Captain Jack Sparrow: "What?"
[She slaps him]
Captain Jack Sparrow: "I may have deserved that."

Governor Swann: "...and this is the path you take? Even if he is a blacksmith? "
Elizabeth Swann: "No..he's a pirate."

Jack Sparrow: "One question about your business, boy. There's no use going. This girl.. How far are you willing to go to save her?"
Will Turner: "I'd die for her."
Jack Sparrow: "Oh, good. No worries then."

Will Turner: "This is either brilliance or madness."
Jack Sparrow: "Remarkable how often those two traits coincide."

Mr. Gibbs: "...But not before he (Jack) got mad with hate."
Will Turner: "Ah. So that's the reason for the.. (He acts like Jack)"

Mr. Gibbs: "Then one day, he roped a couple of sea turtles and rode them away."
Will Turner: "He rode a pair of sea turtles? Where's he get the rope?"
Jack Sparrow: [from behind them] "Human hair [pause] From my back"

Jack Sparrow: "Take what you can!"
Mr. Gibbs: "Give nothing back!!"

[Sparrow is reviewing his new crew and comes across Cotton.]
Jack Sparrow: "You, sailor!"
Mr. Gibbs: "Cotton, sir."
Jack Sparrow: "Mr. Cotton. Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?"
[Pause.]
Jack Sparrow: "Mr. Cotton! Answer, man!"
Mr. Gibbs: "He's a mute, sir. We reckon he's poor devil had his tongue cut out, so he's trained the parrot to talk for him. We haven't yet figured out how..."
Jack Sparrow: "Mr. Cotton's... parrot. Same question."
Parrot: [squawk] "Wind in the sail! Wind in the sail!"
Mr. Gibbs: "Mostly, we fear, that means 'yes.'"
Jack: "Of course it does. Satisfied?"
Will: "Well, you've proven they're mad."
Anamaria: "And what's the benefit for us?"
Jack Sparrow: "Anamaria!"
[Anamaria slugs him]
Will Turner: "I bet you didn't deserve that either."
Jack Sparrow: "No, that one I deserved."
[turns]
Jack Sparrow: "My dear....."
[Anamaria slugs him again]
Anamaria: "You stole my ship!"
Jack Sparrow: "I didn't steal it, I.....borrowed it, without your permission."

Guard: "This deck is off limits to civilians."
Jack Sparrow: "I'm terribly sorry, I didn't know. If I see one, I shall inform you immediately."

Murtogg: "Hey! You! Get away from there."
Mullroy: "You don’t have permission to be aboard there, mate."
Jack: "I’m sorry, it’s just it’s such a pretty boat - ship."
Murtogg: "What’s your name?"
Jack: "Smith or…Smithy, if you like."
Mullroy: "What’s your purpose in Port Royal , Mr. Smith?"
Murtogg: "Yeah, and no lies."
Jack: "Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out!"
Murtogg: "I said no lies!"
Mullroy: "I think he’s telling the truth."
Murtogg: "If he were telling the truth, he wouldn’t have told us."
Jack : "Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn’t believe the truth even if he told it to you."

Elizabeth Swan: "So that’s it then? That’s the secret grand adventure of the infamous Jack Sparrow ? You spent three days lying on a beach, drinking rum!?"
Jack Sparrow: "Welcome to the Caribbean love!"

Jack Sparrow: "Why is the rum gone?"
Elizabeth Swan: "One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels. Two, that signal is over a thousand feet high. The entire Royal Navy is out looking for me, do you really think that there is even the slightest chance that they won’t see it?"
Jack Sparrow: "But WHY is the rum gone?!"

Barbossa: "So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it’s the one I need and watch you sail away on my ship?"
Jack Sparrow: "No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship and then I’ll shout the name back to you. Savvy?"
Barbossa: "But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it’s the one I need."
Jack Sparrow: "Of the two of us I am the only one who hasn't committed mutiny, therefore my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because in fact, if you hadn’t betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse same as you. [bites into an apple] Funny ol' world, innit? [offers him an apple]"

Elizabeth Swann: "Will, How many times must I ask you to call me Elizabeth?"
Will Turner: "Just one more time Ms. Swann, as always."

Elizabeth Swann: "Whose side is Jack on?"
Will Turner: "For the moment?"

[Will points his pistol at Barbossa]
Barbossa: "You've only got one shot and we can't die."
[Will jumps on the edge of the ship and put the pistol on his chin]
Will Turner: "You can't. I can."
Barossa: "Who are you?"
[Jack puts himself between Will and Barbossa]
Jack Sparrow: "No one! He's no one! Distant cousin of my aunt's nephew. Twice removed. Lovely singing voice though. Eunuch!"

Barbossa: "You have the last golden trinket."
Elizabeth Swann: "And the blood to be repaid?"
Barbossa: "That’s why there’s no sense to be killing ye…yet" [pause]
Barbossa: "Apple?"

Will Turner: "Elizabeth goes free!"
Barbossa: "Yes, we know that part, anything else?"

Elizabeth Swan: "Will!"
Will Turner: "Elizabeth!"
Jack Sparrow: "Monkey!"

Elizabeth Swann: "This is the fastest ship in the Caribbean!"
Anamaria: "You can tell them that after they've caught us"

Pirate: "Blasted I'm already awake!"
Will: "That was for the smell."

Jack: "You think this wise boy? Crossing blades with a Pirate?"
Will: "You threatend Miss Swann."
Jack: "Only a little." [sword play] "You know what you're doing, I'll give you that. Excellent form. But how's your footwork? If I step here...." [sword play] "Very good...Now I step again..." [sword play] "Tah!"

Commodore: "You have just been a help to the capture of Captain Jack Sparrow."
Blacksmith: "Just doing my civic duties, Sir."
Commodore: "Well this will be the day we remember as the day Captain Jack Sparrow almost escaped."

Pirate: "Say goodbye!"
Will: "Goodbye."

Jack: "Who makes all these? [looks pointedly at swords]
Will: "I do! And I practice with them three hours a day!"
Jack: "You need to find yourself a girl, mate! Or, perhaps the reason you practice three hours a day is that you already found one and are otherwise incapable of wooing said strumpet. You're not a eunuch, are you?" [looks down]
Will: "I practice three hours a day, so that when I meet a pirate, I can kill it!"

Norrington: "That will be enough Mr. Gibbs."
Gibbs: "She was singing about pirates. Bad luck. It's also bad luck to have a woman aboard. Even miniature ones."

Cursed Pirate: "We know you're here poppet."
Other Cursed Pirate: "Poppet."
Cursed Pirate: "The gold calls to us..."

Gibbs: "Jack!"
Jack: "Bloody empty."

Jack: "Move!"
Will: "No!"
Jack: "Please move."
Will: "No!"
Jack: "This shot is not meant for you."

Jack: "What's your name boy?"
Will: "Will Turner."
Jack: "That be short for William, I imagine. Good strong name. No doubt named for your father, eh?"
Will: "Yes.."

Jack: "Me and the boy will go to shore."
Gibbs: "And if the worst to happen?"
Jack: "Stick to the code."

Maid: "They're here to kidnap you."
Elizabeth: "What?"
Maid: "You're the governor's daughter."

Cursed Pirate 1: "Did it work?"
Cursed Pirate 2: "How do we tell? [Barbossa shoots him]
Cursed Pirate 1: "Your not dead?"
Cursed Pirate 2: "No....He shot me."

Jack: "The girls blood didn't work...did it?"
Borbossa: "Hold your fire. You know whose blood we need?"
Jack: "I know whose blood you need."

Navy officer: "That’s got to be the best pirate I’ve ever seen."
Norrington: "So it would seem."

Pintel: "Once we’re quit of the curse we’ll be rich men. And you can buy an eye that actually fits and is made of glass."
Ragetti: "This one does splinter something terrible."
Pintel: "Stop rubbing it."

Cursed Pirate 1: [spots Jack ] "You. You’re supposed to be dead!"
Jack: "Am I not?" [looks down on himself] "Hmm. Puhluley, puhlulehvoos, parleli, parsmi, pasley, parle, parle…"
Cursed Pirate 2: "Parley?"
Jack: "Parley! That’s the one. Parley! Parley!"

Governor Swann: "On our return to Port Royal , I granted you clemency and this is how you thank me? By throwing in your lot with him? He’s a pirate!"
Will: "And a good man. [ Jack points to himself proudly] If all I have achieved here is that the hangman will earn two pairs of boots instead of one, so be it. At least my conscience will be clear."

Jack: "Apparentley, there's some high-tone and fancy to-do up at the fort eh? And how is it, that two upstanding gentleman such as yourselves did not merit an invitation to such an event?"
Guard 1: "Well, somebody's got to guard the ships."
Jack: "And it's a fine goal to be certain, but a ship like that makes this one here a bit superfluos really."
Guard 1: "The Dauntless is the pear of these waters for sure, but there's no ship as can match The Interceptor for speed."
Jack: "I've heard of one, supposed to be very fast, nigh uncatchable. The Black Pearl."
Guard 1: [scoffs] "There's no real ship as can match The Interceptor."
Guard 2: "The Black Pearl is a real ship."
Guard 1: "No, no it's not."
Guard 2: "Yes it is. I've seen it."
Guard 1: "You've seen a ship with black sails, that's crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?"
Guard 2: "No, but I have seen a ship with black sails."
Guard 1: "Oh, and no ship that's crewed by the damned and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out could possibly have black sails therefore could not possibly be a real ship. Is that what you're saying?"
Guard 2: [nodding and smiling] "No."

Will: [sees a skull] "What code is Gibbs to keep to if the worst should happen?"
Jack: "Pirate’s code. Any man that falls behind is left behind."
Will: "No heroes amongst thieves, eh?"
Jack: "You know for having such a bleak outlook on pirates you’re well on your way to becoming one. Sprung a man from jail, commandeered a ship of the Fleet, sailed with a buccaneer crew out of Tortuga [they both look at the gold on the bottom of the little river] …and you’re completely obsessed with treasure."
Will: "That’s not true. I’m not obsessed with treasure."
Jack: [looks in on the gathering] "Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate."

Elizabeth: "Captain Barbossa, I have come to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal."
Barbossa: "There were a lot of long words in that, missy. We're not but humble pirates. What is it that you want?"
Elizabeth: "I want you to leave and never come back."
Barbossa: "I'm disinclined to acquiess to your request. Means no."
Elizabeth: "Fine. I'll drop it."
Barbossa: "Me holds are burstin' with swag. That bit o' shine matters to us?"

Jack: "Why ask me, eh?"
Will: "Because you're a pirate."
Jack: "Oh, and you're hoping to turn pirate yourself then, is it?"
Will: "Never! They took Miss Swann."
Jack: "Oh so it is that you've found a girl!"

Elizabeth: "It must be really terrible for you Jack, to be trapped on this island."
Jack: "Oh yes, but the company is infinitely better than last time, and the scenery is much improved..."
Elizabeth: "Mister Sparrow! I don't think I've entirely enough rum to hear that sort of talk!"
Jack: "I know just what you mean, luv."
Elizabeth: "To freedom."
Jack: "To the Black Pearl."

Elizabeth: "Lower the anchor on the right side! On the starboard side!"
Will: "It certainly has the element of surprise."
Anamaria: "You're daft, lady. You both are!"
Gibbs: "Daft like Jack. Lower the starboard anchor! Do it ya gobs, or it's you will load in to the cannons!"

Jack: "It's Captain Jack Sparrow, actually."
Norrington: "Oh really? Where is your ship, Captain?"
Jack: "I'm in the Market, as it were."

Will: "We're going to steal that ship?"
Jack: "Commandeer. We're going to commandeer that ship. Nautical term."