Eleanor Guthrie quotes from Black Sails

Eleanor

If you want to hunt, my door is open. But if the mere whiff of the Navy is too much for you, then God bless and get the fuck out.

Eleanor

I've spent my life trying to build something here. It's all I have. I can't walk away.

Eleanor

Fuck the captains and fuck anyone else who doesn't like the way I manage this place.

Eleanor

You all heard my father this morning, that the Guthrie trading operation in Nassau is dead. To that I have this to add: fuck him and fuck that.

Eleanor

I think you misunderstand. I wasn't asking you to help me; I was granting you the opportunity to help me.

Eleanor

[to Mr. Scott] My life is my own. It's not Benjamin Hornigold's, it's not Charles Vane's, it's not my father's, and it's not yours.

Eleanor

[to Flint] The outcome is only uncertain to those who disbelieve. I believe in this place. I believe if there's anyone who can do what's necessary to make it something better, it's you.

Eleanor

Don't be sorry. Do your fucking job.

Eleanor

Stop telling me what it is you think I think. Do you know what it is I want? I want to figure out a way of selling everyone's shit here for more tomorrow than I did yesterday. I want to establish a future here that isn't measured in months.

Vane

Eleanor, your father sells my cargo. Whatever it is you're so upset about, I doubt he feels the same.

Eleanor

When I tell him you put our biggest earner out of business, he'll -

Vane

Remind you that Flint hasn't been your biggest earner in quite some time. You'll also be reminded of what you've always known but never accepted, that if forced, your father will always choose profits over daughters. Hate your father? I wouldn't blame you. Hate me, too, if you'd like. And if you feel the need, cling to Flint, and his legend and a past the rest of us have long outgrown. But make no mistake about it, whatever future this place has left, I'm it. And if you ever challenge me again in front of my crew, I may just forget that I loved you once.