Captain James Cook

Famous quotes containing the words captain, james and/or cook:

    “Do you know who’s sneaked into my stateroom at three o’clock this morning? Nobody, and that’s my complaint!”
    —S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Arthur Sheekman, Will Johnstone, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Monkey Business, a complaint shipboard stowaway Groucho makes to the ship’s captain (Ben Taggart)

    “It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “‘Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)