Best 7 quotes in «treasure island quotes» category

I'll be as silent as the grave.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

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.

...I'll stake my wig there's fever here.

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.

If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit, you would catch them!

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.