Hector Barbossa – Character Quotes

— Barbossa! Marry us!
— I'm a little busy at the moment!
— Barbossa, now!
— Fine then. Dearly beloved, we be gathered here today, to nail your gizzards to the mast, you poxy cur.

— What has become of my beloved Pearl?
— I lost the Pearl as I lost my leg.
— Lost the Pearl?
— Aye. I defended her mightily enough, but she be sunk nonetheless.
— If that ship be sunk properly, you should be sunk with it.

— So, what now, Jack Sparrow? Are we to be two immortals locked in an epic battle until judgment day and the trumpets sound?
— Or you could surrender.

— I suppose in exchange, you want me not to kill the whelp.
— No, no, no. Not at all. By all means, kill the whelp. Just not yet.

The Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules.

— If we don't stand together, they'll hunt us down one by one till there will be none left but you.
— Quite like the sound of that. Captain Jack Sparrow, the last pirate.
— Aye. And you'll be fighting Jones alone. How does that figure into your plan?
— I'm still working on that!

Because honour's a hard thing to come by nowadays.

Waste not!

Though it does seem a shame to lose something so fine, don't it, lads? So I'll be having that dress back before you go.

— You don't know what this is, do you?
— It's a pirate medallion.
— 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. And 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.