Quote:Hector Barbossa

Hector Barbossa

Pirates of the Caribbean (ride)

Dialogue

"It’s Captain Jack Sparrow we're after, and a fortune in gold. Run up your white flag, you scurvy scum, and bring me Captain Jack Sparrow, or I'll be sending you to Davy Jones."
"You will never get the gold! We will never surrender!"
"Give 'em a broadside! Pound 'em lads, pound 'em! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Barbossa—we’re going to sink your ship!"
"Captain Jack Sparrow! Show yourself, you miserable cur!"

―Hector Barbossa and Spanish guards

"Strike your colours you bloomin' cockroaches! Surrender Captain Jack Sparrow or by thunder we'll burn this city to the ground!"
"Two shot holes Captain—one clean through the mizzenmast."
"They need a bit of persuasion mateys. Fire at will!"

―Hector Barbossa and a pirate crewman

The Price of Freedom

Spoken by Barbossa

"Gents... Ladies... 'Tis lucky I am to be standing here afore ye today. Two months ago, almost to the day, me ship Cobra was attacked and sunk by one of our own. We had raised our true colors, and yet still they tried to slaughter us. We were attacked by one of our own brethren... a clear violation of the Code, 'twas."

―Barbossa to assembled pirates at Shipwreck Cove

"I was in the water, no boat within reach. Me poor Polly had been holdin' on to me shoulder. She was wearin' her little blue dress, but suddenly she wasn't there and I couldn't see her. I swam under, gropin' through the water and the wreckage, tryin' to find her, but she was gone. When I came up to breathe, ready to dive again, even though I knew 'twas hopeless, two of me crew, witless one-eyed Ragetti and his grinnin' imp of a friend Pintel, grabbed me jacket and pulled me into their boat. Fools they be, but I'm grateful to 'em."

―Hector Barbossa

"I'll volunteer to stand executioner, Cap’n Teague. There's nothing I'd like more than to make each of those devils a hemp cravat. Shooting's too good for the likes of scum like that."

―Barbossa to Edward Teague, talking about the rogue pirates who destroyed his ship

"You lovebirds run along and have a good time. You're only young once, remember that."

―Barbossa to Jack Sparrow and Esmeralda Maria Consuela Anna de Sevilla

Spoken about Barbossa

"Brethren of the Coast, Don Rafael brought with him a man that I want you to meet. He is one of us, a man on the account, and he, of all of us, has personally witnessed the actions of these rogue pirates. I want you to hear what he has to say. Ladies, gentlemen, allow me present to you, Captain Hector Barbossa."

―Teague to assembled pirates at Shipwreck Cove

Dialogue

"Please tell us the entire story, Captain Barbossa."
"Aye, Cap'n Teague. And hard tellin' it be, sir. Every time I think about me poor Polly..."

―Teague and Hector Barbossa

"Who is this Polly? Your doxy?"
"Course not, ma'am. 'Tis bad luck to be bringing a woman aboard a ship. Polly ain't–warn’t–human."
"Polly, that is the English name of a parrot."
"I did have a parrot named Polly once. A fine bird he was, but he messed up the shoulder of me jacket. But the Polly I lost after the battle was me little monkey. Pretty little thing, she was. Understood every word I said to her."

―Ching, Hector Barbossa and Villanueva

"And who be ye, lad?"
"Jack Sparrow. It's always regrettable to hear about the loss of a good ship, Captain Barbossa."
"Aye, 'tis. And when we find the scurvy blackguard responsible, he can apologize to me little Polly personally, in Davy Jones's locker."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

Pirates of the Caribbean: Legends of the Brethren Court

Spoken by Barbossa

"Where are we going? Our bearing? Care to give an order, Captain?"

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"We're pirates. Not bleeding-heart-do-gooder-Robin-Hood-hero types. We don't do rescues."

―Hector Barbossa

"Let us stand and fight, gents."

―Hector Barbossa

"Fortune has clearly brought us here..."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow on Libertalia

Spoken about Barbossa

"How odd. Must have words with that first mate of mine. Bit of a loose cannon, he is."

―Jack Sparrow on Hector Barbossa

Dialogue

"I don't know what you're playing at, but I know you can hear me, Jack."
"Oh, sorry. I presumed you must be addressing some other Jack, one who was not captain of the finest ship ever to sail the Seven Seas—since surely if you were addressing me, you would have said 'Captain Jack,' isn't that right?"
"My apologies, Captain Jack."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Why don't I stay here with the ship? I can keep an eye on things. While you're gone. Trust me, I'll take good care of the Pearl."
"Nonsense. I need your keen eye and sound judgment in choosing a crew, Barbossa. A noble offer, but I insist you accompany me to the Faithful Bride."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"I am Diego de Leon. I recently escaped from the fort of San Augustin, Florida."
"A runaway and a stowaway."

―Diego de Leon and Hector Barbossa

"I never thought I'd get to go to India. Where does this Pirate Lord live?"
"Around, er, these parts."
"What our dear captain means is near Bombay. Sri Sumbhajee has been tormenting the ships going in and out of this port for years."

―Carolina, Jack Sparrow, and Hector Barbossa

"If we can find Sri Sumbhajee's base before he knows we're there, then we attack with the element of surprise. I say we go in with guns a-blazing and swords held high and demand that he hand over his vial of Shadow Gold."
"That is just the kind of original thinking I expect from you, Barbossa."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Fortune has clearly brought us here."
"Felt more like a horrible, wet, nasty storm than fortune to me. We're going to regret this."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Finding a new crew in Tortuga...I feel like we've been here before, Hector, don't you? What do they call that? Deja-booty?"
"You leave it to me, Captain. I'll find us a new crew. I'll take care of everything."
"Wonderful. Wake me once we'ree in the Atlantic, will you?"

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

Pirates of the Caribbean: Six Sea Shanties

Dialogue

"Need sailors' blood to keep you alive then?"
"No. I love sailors...but pirate souls feed my fire."
"Pity...'cause our souls be spoken for!"

―Hector Barbossa and Palaimon

"You might have mentioned being cursed, Barbossa."
"Nasty little bit of business with the Aztecs."
"Then why even follow me into my trap? I am a god, after all."
"We already be damned. So even a slim chance at finding a cure is better than no chance. And for a 'god' you seen to be awfully...limited."

―Palaimon and Hector Barbossa

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Spoken by Barbossa

"First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement, so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the Pirate's Code to apply, and you're not. And thirdly, the Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner."

―Hector Barbossa to Elizabeth Swann

"I'm curious. After killing me what is it you're planning on doing next?"

―Barbossa to Elizabeth Swann

"Look! The moonlight shows us for what we really are. We are not among the living, and so we cannot die. But neither are we dead. For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face, nor the spray of the sea...nor the warmth of a woman's flesh. You best start believing in ghost stories, Miss Turner. You're in one!"

―Barbossa to Elizabeth Swann

"Haul on the main brace! Make ready the guns!...and run out the sweeps."

―Hector Barbossa to his crew and Bo'sun

"Strike your colors, you bloomin' cockroaches! Hands, grapnels at the ready! Prepare to board!"

―Hector Barbossa

"You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters!"

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"I feel...cold."

―Hector Barbossa's last words before dying

Spoken about Barbossa

"You've seen a ship with black sails that's crewed by the damned, and captained by a man so evil that Hell itself spat him back out?"

―Mullroy to Murtogg

"Captain Barbossa, and his crew of miscreants, sail from the dreaded Isla de Muerta. It's an island that cannot be found, except by those who already know where it is."

―Jack Sparrow to Will Turner about Hector Barbossa

"Three days into the venture, the First Mate comes up to him and says everything's an equal share. That should mean the location of the treasure too. So, Jack gives up the bearings. That night, there was a mutiny."

―Joshamee Gibbs to William Turner concerning the mutiny against Jack Sparrow

""Now, Will, when a pirate's marooned, he's given a pistol with a single shot. One shot. Well, that won't do much good hunting, nor to be rescued. But after three weeks of a starvin' belly and thirst, that pistol starts to look real friendly. But Jack, he escaped the island, and he still has that one shot. Oh, but he won't use it, though, save for one man. His mutinous First Mate."
"Barbossa."

―Joshamee Gibbs and Will Turner

Dialogue

"Captain Barbossa, I am here to negotiate the cessation of hostilities against Port Royal."
"There were a lot of long words in there, miss, we're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?"
"I want you to leave and never come back."
"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request...Means 'no'."

―Elizabeth Swann and Hector Barbossa

"Wait! You have to take me to shore! According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren—"
"First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement, so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the Pirate's Code to apply, and you're not. And thirdly, the Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner."

―Elizabeth Swann and Hector Barbossa

"I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa."
"Aye. That's exactly what I thought when we were first told the tale. Buried on an Isle of the Dead what cannot be found, except for those who know where it is. Find it, we did. There be the chest. Inside be the gold. And we took 'em all!""

―Elizabeth Swann and Hector Barbossa

"Gentlemen, the time has come!
[The crew cheers]
Our salvation is nigh!
[The crew cheers]
Our torment is near an end!
[The crew cheers]
For ten years we've been tested and tried, and each man jack of you here has proved his mettle a hundred times over, and a hundred times again!"
[The crew cheers]
"Suffered, I have!"
"Punished, we were, the lot of us. Disproportionate to our crime! Here it is! The cursed treasure of Cortés himself. Every last piece that went astray, we have returned. Save for this."

―Hector Barbossa and Ragetti

"And who among us has paid the blood sacrifice owed to the heathen gods?"
"Us!"
"And whose blood must yet be paid?"
"Hers!"
"You know the first thing I'm going to do after the curse is lifted? Eat a whole bushel of apples. Begun by blood, by blood undone."

―Barbossa and his crew

"You, maid! Your father, what was his name? Was your father William Turner?"
"No."
"Where's his child? The child that sailed from England eight years ago? The child in whose veins flows the blood of William Turner? Where?"

―Hector Barbossa and Elizabeth Swann

"How the blazes did you get off that island?"
"When you marooned me on that godforsaken spit of land, you forgot one very important thing, mate...I'm Captain Jack Sparrow."
"Well, I won't be making that mistake again. Gents, you all remember Captain Jack Sparrow? Kill him."
"The girl's blood didn't work, did it?"
"Hold your fire! You know whose blood we need."
"I know whose blood you need."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"So you expect to leave me standing on some beach with nothing but a name and your word it's the one I need and watch you sail away in my ship?"
"No. I expect to leave you standing on some beach with absolutely no name at all, watching me sail away on my ship, and then I'll shout the name back to you. Savvy?"
"But that still leaves us with the problem of me standing on some beach with naught but a name and your word it's the one I need."
"Of the two of us, I'm the only one who hasn't committed mutiny. Therefore, my word is the one we'll be trusting. Although, I suppose I should be thanking you because, in fact, if you hadn't betrayed me and left me to die, I would have an equal share in that curse, same as you. Funny old world, isn't it?"

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"I'm having a thought here, Barbossa. What say we run up a flag of truce, I scurry over to the Interceptor, and I negotiate the return of your medallion, eh? What say you to that?"
"Now you see, Jack, that's exactly the attitude that lost you the Pearl. People are easy to search when they're dead. Lock him in the brig."

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

"Barbossa!"
"What's gotten into yer head boy?!"
"She goes free!"
"You've only got one shot, and we can't die."
"[Jack whispers] Don't do anything stupid..."
"You can't. I can."
"...like that."
"Who are you?"
"No one, he's no one. A distant cousin of my aunt's nephew twice removed. Lovely singing voice, though. [whispers] Eunuch."
"My name is Will Turner, my father was Bootstrap Bill Turner, his blood runs through my vains."
"[Ragetti to crew] He's the spittin' image of our Bootstrap Bill come back to haunt us!"
"Now on my word, do as I say, or I'll pull this trigger, and be lost to Davy Jones' Locker!"
"Name yer terms Mr. Turner."
"Elizabeth goes free!"
"Yes, we know that one. Anything else?
And the crew! The crew is not to be harmed!"
"...Agreed."

―Will Turner, Hector Barbossa, Jack Sparrow, and Ragetti

"Barbossa, you lying bastard! You swore she'd go free!"
"Don't dare impugn me honor, boy. I agreed she'd go free, but it was you who failed to specify when or where."

―Will Turner and Hector Barbossa

"I really rather hope we were past all this."
"Jack. Jack...Did ye not notice? That be the same little island we made you governor of on our last little trip."
"...I did notice."

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

"All hands to the boats!...Apologies, you give the orders."
"Gents...take a walk."

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

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

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Ten years you carry that pistol, and now you waste your shot."
"He didn't waste it."

―Hector Barbossa and Will Turner

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow

Spoken by Barbossa

"...last piece that went astray, we have returned. Save for this. 881 we found but despaired of ever finding the last. We've paid the blood sacrifice owed the heathen gods. And now, 'tis only her blood must yet be paid. Begun by blood, by blood undone!"

―Hector Barbossa to his crew

"Enough! Bo'sun, get down there and finish this."

―Hector Barbossa to Bo'sun

Spoken about Barbossa

"Have you gone mad? Your account couldn't be further from the truth. Elizabeth escaped on her own. It was you taken captive by Barbossa aboard the Black Pearl."
"Yes, of course. So helpful to have you by my side, correcting my inaccuracy."

―Will Turner and Jack Sparrow

"The situation was grim. The not-very-often heroic Will Turner had handed himself over as Barbossa's prisoner. While I was marooned once again on Rum Island. This time with the lady Elizabeth at me side, which improved the view dramatically. Nevertheless, we've no hope of escape."

―Jack Sparrow

Dialogue

"Will, lead her back to the ship! I'll keep these scallywags at bay with the point of me blade."
"We can but humbly surrender to your dashing bravery and superior swordmanship."
"Well, then. That certainly makes things easier."

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

"Oh, 'tis an honor indeed to have you back aboard me ship."
"My ship."
"Jack Sparrow—"
"Captain."
"The man who vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company. The man who sunk a French war galleon with naught but his cutlass and a diving bell."
"The man who sacked Nassau Port without firing a shot. Mustn't leave that one out."
"I've often wondered just how you managed to pull off such a trick."
"Ah, therein lies a tale."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Ye spin a lovely yarn, Jack. Would if a word of it be true."
"Captain, we're coming up on the Interceptor."
"Take him back to his cell."

―Hector Barbossa and Bo'sun

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Spoken by Barbossa

"So tell me, what's become of my ship?"

―Hector Barbossa

Spoken about Barbossa

"All right. But if you go and brave the weird and haunted shores at World's End, then you will need a captain who knows those waters."

―Tia Dalma to Jack Sparrow's crew

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Spoken by Barbossa

"For certain, you have to be lost to find a place as can't be found. Elseways, everyone would know where it was."

―Hector Barbossa to Elizabeth Swann before reaching World's End

"There's not been a gatherin' like this in our lifetime."

―Hector Barbossa on the Brethren Court

"In another age, at this very spot, the First Brethren Court captured the sea goddess and bound her in her bones. That was a mistake. Oh, we tamed the seas for ourselves, aye. But opened the door to Beckett and his ilk. Better were the days when mastery of seas came not from bargains struck with eldritch creatures, but from the sweat of a man's brow and the strength of his back alone. You all know this to be true. Gentlemen. Ladies. We must free Calypso."

―Hector Barbossa to the Brethren Court

"If ye have something to say, I might be saying something as well."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"Brace up yards, you cack-handed deck apes. Dying is the day worth living for!"

―Hector Barbossa

"I'm a little busy at the moment!"

―Hector Barbossa to Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann

Dialogue

"Jack Sparrow."
"Ah, Hector. It's been too long. Hasn't it?"
"Aye. Isla de Muerta, remember? You shot me."
"...No I didn't."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Still thinkin' of runnin', Jack? Think you can outrun the world? You know, the problem with bein' the last of anythin', is by and by there'll be none left at all."
"Sometimes things come back, mate. We're living proof, you and me."
"Aye, but that's a gamble of long odds, ain't it? There's never a guarantee of comin' back, but passin' on, that's dead certain."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Spoken by Barbossa

"The Fountain. Is that were Jack be headed?"

―Hector Barbossa to Joshamee Gibbs

"Welcome back to His Majesty's Navy, Master Gibbs!"

―Hector Barbossa to Joshamee Gibbs

"Gentlemen, the Fountain is the prize."

―Hector Barbossa to the crew of the HMS Providence

"We've fallen behind!"

―Hector Barbossa to Joshamee Gibbs

"Are we not King's men?"

―Hector Barbossa to the crew of the HMS Providence

"Your head, or my heading, I'll have one or the other, I don't care which."

―Hector Barbossa to Joshamee Gibbs

"You can sleep when you're dead. Push on!"

―Hector Barbossa to the crew of the HMS Providence

"We were off the coast of Hispaniola when we came under attack. No provocation nor warning or offer of parley. We were peppered with cannon fire. And then the sea beneath the Pearl began to roil. The Pearl was pitching and yawing violently. Every plank, every rail, every spar all at once began to creak. The rigging had come to life! Our own ship turned against us. Tangling the crew, wrapping around them like snakes...and wrapping around my leg. But my arms were free and my sword was at hand. I am the master of my ship, not Blackbeard. I am the master of me fate, not Blackbeard! So I did what needed done...I survived."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"Get it off me."

―Hector Barbossa about Gillette's dead body

"Take a gander, Edward Teach!"

―Hector Barbossa to Blackbeard, when the Spanish arrived at the Fountain of Youth

"For the Pearl!"

―Hector Barbossa to Blackbeard, after he stabbed him

"I'm not such a fool to take on Blackbeard without a little...venomous advantage."

―Hector Barbossa

"I claim Blackbeard's ship and crew, and this sword, payment for my missing limb!"

―Hector Barbossa

"The Revenge is mine."

―Hector Barbossa concerning the Queen Anne's Revenge

"All hands! Ply to windward! Get cracking, ye bloomin' cockroaches! [laughs] The Crown served me well. But now, by the Gods of sea and sky! Make way for Tortuga!"

―Hector Barbossa to his crew

Spoken about Barbossa

"The prophecy is this: Blackbeard will meet his death, within a fortnight, at the hands of a one-legged man. That's why he needs the Fountain, Jack."

―Angelica to Jack Sparrow

"What's your play, Jack? Throwing in with Barbossa."
"There is a girl."

―Joshamee Gibbs and Jack Sparrow

"Would you mind pointing that thing another way?"

―Jack Sparrow to Hector Barbossa

"Father."
"...The one-legged man."

―Angelica and Blackbeard

"You brought him here."
"Would I do that?"

―Blackbeard, Angelica and Jack Sparrow

Dialogue

"Hector. How nice to see a fellow pirate make good of himself."
"Pirate? Nay. Privateer. On a sanctioned mission, under the authority and protection of the Crown."
"As may be. But first. 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."

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

"Take me with you. Any point of the compass—"
"Take you where, Gibbs? The Fountain? Aye? Is that where Jack be headed?"

―Joshamee Gibbs and Hector Barbossa

"I had just enough time to study those infernal circles. Every route, every destination. All safe...In here."
"Welcome back to His Majesty's Navy, Master Gibbs!"

―Joshamee Gibbs and Hector Barbossa after Gibbs burned the Mao Kun Map

"Be a gem, and pour me a gulper?"
"Nay! We be privateers, not pirates, Master Gibbs. And in the King's name, will behave as such."

―Joshamee Gibbs and Hector Barbossa

"Be we on the proper course, Gibbs?"
"Aye, it be proper. There's your proof."
"...The Spaniard."

―Hector Barbossa and Joshamee Gibbs

"What do the men fear? Say it. Speak the words."
"Whitecap Bay."

―Hector Barbossa and Theodore Groves

"Aye, Whitecap Bay! Every worthless seaman fears the name, and rightly so, though few know why or dare to ask."
"Be the stories true?"
"Say what robs you of your staunch heart, Gibbs, or forever leave it to the whiter fields of fancy."
"...Mermaids, captain?"
"Aye. Mermaids. Sea ghouls, devil fish, dreadful in hunger for flesh of man. Mermaid waters, that be our path. Cling to your soul, Gibbs, as mermaids be given to take the rest, to the bone."

―Hector Barbossa and Joshamee Gibbs

"Man overboard!"
"Nay! A deserter!"
"Come about!"

―The crewmen of the HMS Providence, Hector Barbossa and Theodore Groves

"Gentlemen. I shall not ask any more than of any men than what that man can deliver, but I do ask this: are we not King's men?"
"...Aye."
"On the King's mission?"
"...Aye."
"I did not note any fear in the eyes of the Spanish as they passed us by. Are we not King's men?"
"Aye!"
"Aye! Hands all off, and bear away! Stave on ahead to Whitecap Bay!"

―Hector Barbossa and the crewmen of the HMS Providence

"...Give up this madness now."
"I cannot! Ever walk on the beach, look back, and see your footsteps in the sand? It's like that except the footsteps lie before me."
"Footstep, actually."
"Whitecap Bay, sir, we must haste..."

―Joshamee Gibbs, Hector Barbossa, Gillette and Theodore Groves

"We travel by foot! Gibbs, I require a heading!"
"Sir, the men—"
"They be dead already."
"They don't sounds dead."
"Oh, is that so? Well, I hear nothing but...seagulls. Nesting. What is it you hear, Mr. Groves?"
"...Seagulls. Nesting. Nothing more."

―Hector Barbossa and Theodore Groves

"You."
"No...you."
"I was here first. You. Why are you here?"
"Blackbeard sent me. Why are you?"
"Silver Chalices for my royal liege."
"Oh, please."
[the Santiago starts to tilt]
"Back, back! We have to balance it out!"
"Right, then. What if...we each choose an item of approximately equal weight? [picks up a vase, ship tilts over again]"
"Put it back! We touch nothing!"
[a chest slides out]
"But what about that?"
"The Chalices."
[Barbossa steps backwards, ship tilts once more, moving the Chalices towards him]
"Oi! Why do you get to look first?"
"Fine, then!"
[they switch sides, ship tilts again, they crawl towards the chest and grab its lid]
"...Together.""

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow while in the Santiago

"So...You're not after the Fountain."
"I care not for King George or tavern yarns that give hope for a healed limb. But I'd give my left arm for a chance at Blackbeard."
"Not your right?"
"I need me good arm to drive my poisoned blade through his heart."
"I'll see you get the chance, mate."

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

"Kill them!"
"No quarter!"

―Hector Barbossa and Blackbeard

The Brightest Star in the North: The Adventures of Carina Smyth

Spoken by Barbossa

"May the stars guide you. Better than I could. Stay safe. And remember your namesake, the star that will always lead you home. Carina. The brightest star in the north."

―Hector Barbossa to Carina Smyth

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Spoken by Barbossa

"Capitán Salazar, I hear you be looking for Jack Sparrow."

―Hector Barbossa to Armando Salazar

"Jack! We meet again."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"Margaret died. I summoned as much honor as a worthless blaggard ever could. I placed the infant in an orphanage, never to see her again. I thought the ruby might afford her some ease in life but I never imagined she'd take those scribblings and make a life of her own. Life that's led her back to me."

―Hector Barbossa

Spoken about Barbossa

"The pirate Barbossa rules these seas now. Has ten ships."

―Pike to Jack Sparrow

"Pirate's life, Hector."

―Jack Sparrow after Barbossa's death

Dialogue

"Jack held the compass which points you to the thing you desire most, but betray the compass and it releases your greatest fear."
"And a pirate's greatest fear be Salazar, is it? How did you get this?"
"I have my ways."

―Shansa and Hector Barbossa

"My name is Cap'n Barbossa. I stand before you with cordial intent."
"Aye, cordial intent. Do you hear that? This pirate wishes to be cordial. So let me show what my cordiality is, hombre. Every time I tap my sword, one of your men will die, so I suggest you speak quickly. Might want to go a bit faster, Capitán. Where is Jack Sparrow?"
"Jack be sailing for the Trident."
"No, the sea belongs to the dead."
"The Trident controls the sea."
"No! No! There's no treasure! There's no treasure that can save him. He'll die with you."
"I be the only one that can lead you to him. I declare you should have Jack's life by sunrise on the morrow or you can take me own then. Do we have an accord?"
"Heh, heh! Take me to him and you will live to tell the tale."
"You have me word. I thank you on behalf of me crew."
"Oi. You can take what's left of them. The living come aboard!"

―Hector Barbossa and Armando Salazar

"Captain, shouldn't we be getting back to Salazar, trade Mister Sparrow's life in for our own?"
"Aye, that we could. But I've come for the Trident of Poseidon."
"You're gonna double-cross the dead?"
"You did promise!"
"And with it I'll gut the dead that stole my command of the sea."

―Mullroy, Barbossa, and Murtogg

"Smyth! Smyth is quite an unusual name. Did we not know once someone called Smyth?"
"Shut your trap!"
"What was her name? It's on the tip of me tongue."
"You want to lose that tongue?"
"Margaret Smyth!"

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa

"Who am I to you?"
"Treasure."

―Carina Smyth and Hector Barbossa

Miscellaneous

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

"Very well. You hand that over, we'll put your town to our rudder and ne'er return."
"Can I trust you?"
"It's you who invoked the parlay! Believe me, Miss, you'd best hand it over, now ... or these be the last friendly words you'll hear!"

―Hector Barbossa and Elizabeth Swann

"Maid or not, it suits you."
"Dare I ask the fate of its previous owner?"
"Now, none of that."

―Hector Barbossa and Elizabeth Swann

"You be careful around her, Jack - she's pretty enough, she'll steal your heart - but pure evil inside."
"I'll watch my back."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Damn it, Jack, I was almost liking you."
"I know."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (video game)

"I am the captain of the Black Pearl. No-one challenges my authority."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

Kingdom Hearts II

"That's Sora, Donald and Goofy to you! And don't you forget it!"
"Aye, that we won't, and we'll engrave it on your tombstones, to be sure."
"Woah, I like your style!"

―Sora, Barbossa and Pete

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow

"Oh, 'tis an honor, indeed, to have ya back aboard me ship...The man who vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company...The man who sunk a French war galleon with naught but his cutlass and a diving bell."
"The man who sacked Nassau Port without firing a shot..."
"Jack Sparrow."
"Captain. Mustn't leave that one out."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

"But the time before that, it produced the Code, which has served us well...and it was the very first meeting that gave us no less than rule of the sea herself, didn't it? And now that rule is being challenged."
"The East India Trading Company."
"Lord Cutler Beckett is a pox on us all."

―Hector Barbossa and Sao Feng

"Heading, Cap'n?"
"Two degrees starboard."
"I'm captain of the starboard side! Two degrees starboard. The captain will now take the helm."

―Joshamee Gibbs, Jack Sparrow and Hector 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. Our enemies have united, and have vowed to destroy us."

―Hector Barbossa to Sao Feng

"The Pirate Lords, from the four corners of the Earth, must stand together."

―Hector Barbossa

"Everything we've ever faced, everything we've ever done, has led to this."

―Hector Barbossa on the conflict with Cutler Beckett

"Barbossa, why you not giving the order to man the bones? All the Brethren are gathering in this place now. You can force them to do as you want."
"But what I want is not to act a fool. What you're suggesting is not but fool's folly."
"If you no longer want my favor, Barbossa, then perhaps I should be calling a different captain to my cause. Witty Jack would not turn down the promise to survive the coming storm, I think."
"I do not renege on a bargain once struck. But we agreed on ends only. The means are mine to decide."
"Caution, Barbossa. Do not forget it was by my power you return from the dead. Or what it mean if you fail me."
"Don't you forget why you had to bring me back. Why I could not leave Jack to his well-deserved fate. And why I could not give Sao Feng a second smile in his throat to match that ineffably smug one that he wears on his face. It took nine Pirate Lords to bind you, Calypso. And it'll take no less than nine to set you free. Until then, I'll not be taking your commands or risking your reach an accord with someone else. Masters Pintel and Ragetti. Take this fishwife to the brig."

―Tia Dalma and Hector Barbossa

"The Letters of Marque—the letters Jack gave to you. Hand them over! Come, no time! Beckett used his ring to stamp this, yes?"
"Yes..."
"The symbol is the same, from the same ring. Might it work?
"It might. Magic is funny that way."

―Hector Barbossa, Elizabeth Swann, and Tia Dalma

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

"Years pass...a new crew of pirates be at on the horizon, taking ports across the world by storm. And at the helm, Captain Jack Sparrow. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. So if ye be willin' to sign on for this unchancy cruise, muster yer courage. Smart now! All hands ready to set sail...on stranger tides."

―Hector Barbossa from the Story behind Pirates of the Caribbean featurette

"Some say the Fountain be not more than legend false a mermaid's kiss. Others whisper of a curse that leave ya as dead as old Ponce here. What be the truth of it? I'll show ya. Ha ha ha ha ha ha"

―Hector Barbossa

"Pirate? Privateer. On a sanctioned mission, under the authority and protection of the Crown."
"As may be. But first. What became of the Pearl?"
"Lost."
"Lost?"
"I defended her mightily. But she be sunk, nonetheless."
"If that ship be lost, properly, you should be lost with it."
"Aye. In a kinder world."

―Hector Barbossa and Jack Sparrow

"Hand it over."
"You cannot expect I'd be trusting you just like that for nothing."
"In truth, I stand before you a man reformed. Reborn. Long since given up me evil ways."
"A tool of the crown."
"A loyal subject, possessing no will of my own and desiring none, bound by the mandate of my sovereign."

―Hector Barbossa and Joshamee Gibbs

"Fool!"
"I had plenty of time to study those infernal circles and circles within circles. Every route. Every destination. All safe right here."

―Hector Barbossa and Joshamee Gibbs after Gibbs burned the Mao Kun Map

"Orders, sir."
"I require a heading. I'll have my navigator to the helm."
"Aye, sir."
"Well, smart now!"

―Theodore Groves and Hector Barbossa

"Orders, sir!"
"I'll have my navigator to the helm."

―Theodore Groves and Hector Barbossa

"Orders, sir!"
"I'll have my navigator to the helm, Leftenant Commander Groves."

―Theodore Groves and Hector Barbossa

"Every worthless seaman fears the name, and rightly so, though few know why or dare to ask."
"Be the stories true?"
"Listen that your voice should quiver like a fiddle string! Say what robs you of your staunch heart, Gibbs, or forever leave it to the whiter fields of fancy."
"...Mermaids, captain?""

―Hector Barbossa and Joshamee Gibbs

"I hear nothing but...seagulls. Nesting. What is it you hear, Mister Groves? What is it our beloved King George Augustus, Duke of Luneburg, et cetera et cetera would hear?"
"Seagulls. Nesting. Nothing more."
"Could be pelicans."

―Hector Barbossa, Theodore Groves and Gillette

"See there, I've learnt my lesson about taking treasure from a place, not knowing what curse might lie upon it."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"The Pearl was pitching and yawing violently. So violently we could not maneuver...could not man the cannons...so violently it actually came to my mind to give...the order. THE order! THE order! The order no man who calls himself captain ever dreams he’ll be givin’! Abandon ship. But too late. The Pearl began to creak, every plank, every rail, every spar all at once, making a hellish noise like none I have ever heard...and I have heard my share of hellish noises."

―Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow

"The Crown served me. Now. By the Gods of sea and sky! Make way—for Tortuga!"

―Hector Barbossa

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

"Smyth? Smyth? What an exotic name, Hector. Didn't we once know someone named Smyth? Don't tell me, it's coming to me... I'll pull the memory straight from the abyss..."
"Be warned, Jack!"
"I'm remembering the visage of a pretty young lass. A fair beauty with one undeniable flaw — you."
"Shut your trap!"
"Now what was her name? The one you were revoltingly entwined with twenty years ago? She's on the tip of my tongue..."
"You're about to lose that tongue!"
"No, don't help me. I'll get it. It was a royal name — regal as the creature it adorned. Margaret! Margaret Smyth! I can picture her as if she were standing in front of me!"

―Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa