It is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Pirate King's song, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

When you meet Mr. Smith first you think he looks like an over-dressed pirate. Then you begin to think him a character.You wonder at his enormous bulk. Then the utter hopelessness of knowing what Smith is thinking by merely looking at his features gets on your mind and makes the Mona Lisa seem an open book and the ordinary human countenance as superficial as a puddle in the sunlight.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler
  Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,'The Hostelry of Mr. Smith'.