Best 7 quotes in «treasure island quotes» category

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

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.

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

I'll be as silent as the grave.

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.

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.

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