“We all wish you every possible happiness, but I think it only fair to tell you in advance exactly what you are in for. Speaking from bitter experience I can only say that the wife of a sailor is most profoundly to be pitied.”

Celia Johnson - Mrs. Alix Kinross

“Unless the Japanese can be stopped, it will be impossible for any of your forty-two wounded sailors to escape.”

George Macready - Dutch Army Captain

“A diesel loves her oil same as a sailor loves rum.”
Kurt Russell - Captain Ron

“More than 30 freighters! Berthold better not attack now. It's best to stay close and wait until the other boats arrive. For me, there is nothing finer than a submarine... and sailboats. There are no lines more beautiful than that of a sailboat. I sailed on a three-masted schooner once. Wonderful ship. Roomy. It had holds as big as churches!”

Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte

“- Samuel Pepys: Tell me about your parentage, Miss Gwynn.
- Nell Gwynn: My mum was a whore, my father was in the navy.
- Samuel Pepys: I see.
- Nell Gwynn: That's why I don't never do sailors.”
Hugh Bonneville - Samuel Pepys
Zoë Tapper - Nell Gwynn