Treasure Island Quotes

“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

“Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:dream food

“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:silence

“I'll be as silent as the grave.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:silence

“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:eyes

“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:danger adventure

“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:killing body spirit

“Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:listening

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