Treasure Island Quotes

“Them that die'll be the lucky ones.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:death

“I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:knowledge experience

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:friendship spirit

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:words speech

“You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:words

“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:courage speech cowardice

“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:madness

“It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:youth

“And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:money

“Sir . . . with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:speech independence right

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