CAPTAIN in Classic Quotes

1  Most fire captains have to be.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

2  Let's listen to this Captain Beatty together.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

3  God, how I want something to say to the Captain.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

4  Captain Beatty there, rising in thunderheads of tobacco smoke.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

5  Stoneman glanced over at the Captain, as did Montag, startled.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

6  I heard the captain talking to you and suddenly there was nothing.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  But I want it to be your decision, not mine, and not the Captain's.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

8  The Captain came over to the drop hole and gave Montag a questioning glance.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

9  Captain Beatty sat down in the most comfortable chair with a peaceful look on his ruddy face.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  Then if what the Captain says is true, we'll burn them together, believe me, we'll burn them together.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

11  The next few hours, when you see Captain Beatty, tiptoe 'round him, let me hear him for you, let me feel the situation out.'

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

12  But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

13  A child feigning illness, afraid to call because after a moment's discussion, the conversation would run so: "Yes, Captain, I feel better already."

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

14  Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door, his pink face burnt and shiny from a thousand fires and night excitements.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

15  Captain Beatty, his poker cards in one pink hand, walked with exaggerated slowness to the phone and ripped out the address when the report was finished.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

16  Only the man with the Captain's hat and the sign of the Phoenix on his hat, at last, curious, his playing cards in his thin hand, talked across the long room.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

17  Montag made sure the book was well hidden behind the pillow, climbed slowly back into bed, arranged the covers over his knees and across his chest, half-sitting, and after a while Mildred moved and went out of the room and Captain Beatty strolled in, his hands in his pockets.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander