William Kidd Quotes

United Kingdom, Sailor
January 22, 1645 – May, 23, 1701.

William Kidd, also Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd, was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians, for example Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton, deem his piratical reputation unjust.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

William Kidd
- Soul
- Hell
- Harm
I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people.

William Kidd
- People
- Wicked

This is a very fickle and faithless generation.

William Kidd
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.

William Kidd
- Persons
- Lord
- Sentences
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

William Kidd
- Care
- Journey
- England
I beg your lordship's patience till I can procure my papers. I cannot plead until I have those papers that I insisted upon.

William Kidd
- Patience
- Papers
- Insisted
I had all the provocation in the world to kill... I had no malice or spleen against him... It was not designedly done, but in my passion, for which I am heartily sorry.

William Kidd
- Passion
- Kill
- Provocation
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.

William Kidd
- Take
- Come
- Aboard

Upon receiving your Lordship's letter I am making the best of my way for Boston.

William Kidd
- Letter
- Receiving
- Boston
I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

William Kidd
- Evidence
- Trial