Best 7 quotes in «treasure island quotes» category

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.

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.

I'll be as silent as the grave.

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

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

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.

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