Black Sails Quotes
Flint: What the fuck are you doing here?
Vane: Came to take your ship. Stayed to get you out of all this. Figured if anyone was going to make a trophy of you, it really ought to be me.
Flint: So this is your plan? Walk in here and read a girl’s diary?
Vane: More or less.
Two kinds of quartermaster on a crew like this. The one you feel you’re supposed to vote for, and the one you want to vote for. And the former always gives way to the latter.
Billy
Flint: A strong gust has come to this place. The men can feel it. Now it will upset everything they thought they understood just a few days ago. They'll need to lean on something solid. On the men who can reassure them that in times like these there are some things that can be counted on. They'll look to me for that, but they'll also look to their new quartermaster.
Silver: They voted?
Flint: A few days ago. I think the men wanted to tell you when you awoke, so try and act surprised.
I have one regret. I regret ever coming to this place with the assumption that a reconciliation could be found. That reason, could be a bridge between us. Everyone is a monster to someone. Since you are so convinced that I am yours, I will be it.
Flint
Billy: Who said anything about rescuing anyone?
Silver: Didn't Captain Vane?
Billy: There's a significant difference between preventing Ashe from making a trophy of Flint, and saving Flint's life. Whose to say Vane doesn't help Flint escape from shore, and then slit his throat the moment we're in open water? Along with all of ours.
Silver: That was dark.
The Earl was no friend of yours, yet he grants you gifts from his own home. Why would he do that? All these years, it never sat right with me how Alfred was able to turn the Navy against James. He was far too admired by his superiors for his career to be dashed based solely on heresay. Alfred would have known that. He wouldn’t have gone to them armed only with unfounded suspicions. He would have needed a witness. Someone who knew Thomas and James well enough to give the accusation credibility. Alfred came to you didn’t he?
Miranda
You hate Flint. I hate Flint. But right now he’s talking about how we survive what comes next. And you’re talking about what you think is yours. When the Navy arrives, they aren’t going to give a F**k what belongs to you or what belongs to me. Because to them, there is no difference between you and me.
Billy
It was as if the sea had conjured that man out of nothing, and then taken him back for some unknowable purpose. When I first met Mr. Gates and he asked me my name, I feared the man I was about to create. I feared that someone, born of such dark things, would conceal me were I not careful. And I was determined to wear him only for a while, and then dispose of him when his purpose was complete. And I thought of that story.
Flint
I can not stand before you and claim to be without sin. When we received that letter from you informing us of Thomas' death, the damage wrought by Alfred Hamilton was too much for us to bear. We were angry, and we allowed that anger to drive us to a dark deed. But I ask you not to judge me by that one deed. Judge me by the ends that I have come here in service of. The redemption of Nassau, in accordance with the principles that you, and I, and she, and Thomas Hamilton committed ourselves to all those years ago.
Flint
Jack: How did that go?
Max: I have seen what Eleanor Guthrie can build when she is feeling ambitious. I have seen what she can destroy when she is angered.
Jack: Which of the two was she just now?
Max: She was something else entirely.
I believe Max learned about the prize. I believe somehow she managed to convince the island it had disappeared. I believe that right now, she and her partners are preparing to retrieve it and bring it back to this place.
Mrs. Mapleton
Stop! They're telling the truth. He's an old friend of my father's, I remember him. I know him. And if you strike him again, my father will know you did so after I made this clear to you.
Abigail
