Captain Barbossa It's not gettin' to the land of the dead that's the problem...it's gettin' back.
2nd most-quoted character in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007): in 38 of its 242 quotes
Most scenes with: Captain Jack Sparrow (9), Elizabeth Swann (5), Will Turner (3)
Brace up yards, you cack-handed deck apes!
More lines from Captain Barbossa
23 quotes Captain Barbossa Captain Barbossa When a man's wealth was earned by the sweat of his brow, and the strength of his back.
Captain Barbossa There was a time when a pirate was free to make his own way in the world. But our time is comin' to an end.
Captain Barbossa Our enemies have united, and vowed to destroy us.
Captain Barbossa Everything we've ever done, has led...to this!
Captain Barbossa The Pirate Lords from the four corners of the Earth must stand together!
Captain Barbossa Kill him, he's not our man!
Captain Barbossa There's not been a gathering like this in our lifetime.
Captain Barbossa [repeated line]
Why thank ye, Jack.
Captain Barbossa There's no guarantee of coming back, but passin' on - that's dead certain.
Captain Barbossa You know, the problem with being the last of anything, by and by, there'll be none left at all.
Captain Barbossa I assure you our intentions are strictly honorable.
Captain Barbossa [while at the wheel of the Pearl during the maelstrom cannon battle]
It be too late to alter course now mateys! [laughs wildly]
Captain Barbossa [after Will and Elizabeth ask to be married during battle]
I'm a little busy at the moment!
Captain Barbossa You may kiss...[fights off Jones's crew]...you may kiss...[fights off Jones's crew again]...aah, just kiss!
Captain Barbossa [about Sao Feng]
He's much like myself, but absent my merciful nature and sense of fair play.
Captain Barbossa Dyin' is the day worth livin' for!
Captain Barbossa Aye, we're good and lost now.[Elizabeth exclaims, "Lost?"] For sure you have to be lost to find a place what can't be found, elseways, everyone would know where it is.
Captain Barbossa Dearly beloved, we be gathered here today...[knocks out one of Davy Jones' men]...to nail your gizzards to the mast, ya poxy cur!
Captain Barbossa [Jack says that it's been a while]
Aye, it has. Isla de Muerta, remember? You shot me.
Captain Barbossa Loose the cannons, you lazy bilge rats!
Captain Barbossa Feast your eyes upon this, mateys. There is more than one way to live forever. Gents, I give you the Fountain of Youth! [Opens the charts only to find the chart torn out]...Sparrow!
Captain Barbossa Dying is the day worth living for!
Scenes with Captain Barbossa
14 scenes Barbossa I've a venture under way and I find myself in need of a ship and a crew.
Huh. [scratches head distantly] It's a strange coincidence...
Because you happen to have a ship and a crew that you don't need?
No. Because just earlier today, a thief broke into my most revered uncle's temple, and tried to make off...[holds up navigational charts]...with these. The Navigational Charts. The Route to the Farthest Gate. [Tosses the charts to Tai Huang] Wouldn't it be remarkable if this journey of yours took you to the world beyond this one?
Barbossa It would strain credulity, at that.
Barbossa There's not been a gathering like this in our lifetime.
And I owe them all money. [Barbossa rolls his eyes]
Hector! Been too long, hasn't it?
Barbossa Aye. Isla De Muerta, remember? You shot me. [Glares]
Barbossa [In between the have not's and so's, the other pirate lords heads turn towards the speaker]
You've only ever run from a fight.
I have not!
Barbossa You have so!
Have not!
Barbossa You have so!
Have not!
Barbossa You have so, and ya' know it!
Have not, slander and calumny! I have only ever embraced that oldest and noblest of pirate traditions. I submit here and now, that is what we all must do- we must fight... to run away.
Barbossa It was the first court what imprisoned Calypso, and we will be the ones to set her free, and in her gratitude she will see fit to grant us boons.
Whose boons? Your boons? Utterly deceptive twaddlespeak, says I.
Barbossa If ye have a better alternative, please... share.
[pause]
...Cuttlefish. [Barbossa gives him a confused look] Eh? Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends, the cuttlefish. Flipping glorious little sausages. Pen 'em up together, and they will devour each other without a second thought. Human nature, isn't it? Or... or, fish nature. So yes, we could stay here well-supplied and well-armed, and half of us would be dead within the month. Which seems rather grim to me, anyway you slice it. Or... ah... as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we can release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful. (I rather doubt it.) Can we in fact pretend that she is anything but a woman scorned like which fury hell hath no? We cannot. Res ipsa loquitur, tabula in naufragio, we are left but with one option- I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are coming out of me mouth... Captain Swann. We must fight.
Barbossa Aye, we're good and lost now.
Lost?
Barbossa For certain you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was.
Barbossa [Barbossa is giving orders and Jack repeats the order]
What are you doin'?
What are YOU doin'?
Barbossa No, what ARe you doin'?
What are YOU doin'?
Barbossa NO! What ARe you doin'?
What are YOU doin'? Captain gives orders on the ship.
Barbossa The captain of the ship IS givin' orders.
MY ship, makes ME Captain.
Barbossa They be my charts!
Well, that makes you... Chartman!
Stow it! The both of you! That's an order! Understand?!
[Jack, Barbossa and the other pirates stare at him] [pause, before sheepishly and apologetically cringing]
... Sorry. I just thought, with the Captain issue in doubt, I'd throw my name in for consideration... Sorry.
Yeah?
Elizabeth, will you marry me?
It may well be the only time! I love you... I've made my choice. What's yours?
Barbossa!
Barbossa [fighting off Davy Jones' crew]
I'm a little busy at the moment!
Now, Barbossa!
Barbossa Fine then! [climbs up on a ledge] Dearly beloved, we be gathered here today, [to an enemy] to nail yer gizzards to the mast, ye poxy cur! [continues fighting]
Elizabeth Swann, do you take me to be your husband?
I do!
Great!
[fighting]
Will Turner, do you take me to be your wife...in sickness and in health...with health being the less likely?
I do!
Barbossa As captain I now pronounce you-[fights off enemy] You may kiss-[fights off enemy] You may kiss-[fights off another enemy] Aargh, just kiss!
Jocard Who is this betrayer?
Barbossa Not likely anyone among us.
Where's Will?
Not among us.
It's not over.
There's still a fight to be had.
We have an armada against us. And with the Dutchman there's no chance.
There's only a fool's chance.
Barbossa Revenge won't bring your father back, Miss Swann, And it's not something I'm intendin' to die for.
You're right... Then what shall we die for? [turns around] You will listen to me. Listen!! The Brethren will still be looking here to us, to the Black Pearl, to lead. And what will they see? Frightened bilge rats aboard a derelict ship? No. No, they will see free men. And freedom! And what the enemy will see is the flash of our cannons, they will hear the ring of our swords and they will know what we can do! By the sweat of our brows [looks at Barbossa] and the strength of our backs... and the courage of our hearts! Gentlemen, hoist the colors!
Hoist the colors!
Hoist the colors!
Aye... the wind's on our side, boys! That's all we need!
All
[cheering]
HOIST THE COLORS!
Barbossa [Barbossa has just convened Brethren Court at Shipwreck cove]
To confirm your lordship and right to be heard, present now your Pieces-of-Eight, my fellow captains!
[The pirate lords begin to place small objects in a bowl, rather than pieces-of-eight.]
Those aren't pieces-of-eight... they're just pieces of junk!
Aye, the original plan was to use Nine Pieces-of-Eight to bind Calypso, but when the First Court met, the Brethren were to a one skint broke.
So change the name.
What? To "Nine Pieces of Whatever-We-Have-In-Our-Pockets-At-The-Time"? Oh yes, that sounds very piratey.
Barbossa [Upon coming across the Kraken's corpse]
Still thinking about running, Jack? ... You know, the problem with being the last of anything, is that by and by, there be none left at all.
Sometimes things come back, mate. We're living proof, you and me.
Barbossa Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of coming back. But passing on, that's dead certain.
... Summoning the Brethren Court then, is it?
Barbossa It's our only hope, lad.
That's a sad commentary in and of itself.
Barbossa The world used to be a bigger place.
The world's still the same. There's just... less in it.
Rudder, hard port! Gather 'way, keep her trim!
Barbossa Nay, belay that.....Do something else!
Let us not, my dear friends forget...our lines, yes? Yes, let us not forget our lines!
[After Beckett messes up his line and swears]
You can't curse in a Disney film, mate. [Turns to camera] See? I told him that!
Barbossa Calypso, I come before you as a servant, humble and contrite...[His hat flies off] You blew my hat off, you [Bleep]
Barbossa Apologies, Your Majesty, but 'tis certain the world we know ends today and I won't be letting the likes of Beckett Cutler--Oh, say, sometimes known as Cutler Beckett!
You can have Barbossa. The belligerent homonculus and his sticky wooden friend...Eeeeeh....(Starts waving for the camera to come closer to him) *whispers* Come back...
In exchange for fair compensation...[drinks a cup of brandy] Square my debt with Jones...[Drinks the other glass] [VERY hoarsely] Guarantee my freedom? [coughs] [to crew] What's in that?!
Hector Barbossa
I see my ship. Right there! [pointing to the Black Pearl]
Can't spot it. Must be a tiny little thing hiding behind the Pearl!
Other characters in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Captain Jack Sparrow
Johnny Depp
Davy Jones
Bill Nighy
Will Turner
Orlando Bloom
Elizabeth Swann
Keira Knightley
Lord Cutler Beckett
Tom Hollander
Ragetti
Mackenzie Crook
Captain Sao Feng
Chow Yun-Fat
Joshamee Gibbs
Kevin McNally
Tia Dalma
Naomie Harris
Pintel
Lee Arenberg
Bootstrap Bill Turner
Stellan Skarsgård
Mercer
David Schofield
Captain Teague
Keith Richards
Cotton's Parrot
Christopher S. Capp
James Norrington
Jack Davenport
Governor Swann
Jonathan Pryce
Bloopers
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