"Jamaica Inn" Quotes

There’s things that happen in a man's life that are not meant to be known.

Happiness is like a bird with twenty wings. Try to catch one and it flies away. Try to catch it again, and it flies to somebody else.

It's a strange life, isn't it? It's a life that makes you think.

When the wind is sou’west at Jamaica, it’s a warning for the sailor man.

There is no room for love in a life like this.

The devil will be your master, and you will live in hell and be a servant of evil all your born days.

But there’s no use thinking of the past and the things that have been, for there’s no way of making them right.

Tis a wild night, Mary, and there’s an ill wind blowing. The devil rides out tonight.

You can’t tell the wind which way to blow.

There’s a risk in any business. But I’ll say this for Joss: he’s a man who knows his business.