Treasure Island Quotes

“I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him--that's what I say, and you may lay to it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“I'll be as silent as the grave.”
― Stevenson, Robert Louis

“In Treasure Island, Savannah is the place where Captain John Flint, the murderous pirate with the blue face, has died of rum before the story begins. It is on his death bed in Savannah that Flint bellows his last command - "Fetch aft the rum, Darby!" - and hands Billy Bones a map of Treasure Island. "He gave it me at Savnnah," says Bones, "when he lay a-dying." The book has a drawing of Flint's map in it with an X marking the location of the buried treasure.”
― John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

“...I'll stake my wig there's fever here.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.
"The score!" he burst out. "Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!"
And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit, you would catch them!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island