“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“-I am not sure whether he's sane.
-If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“yo ho ho and a bottle of rum”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“Ah, said Silver, it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old john be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor.
'Not a thought,' replied Dr. Livesey cheerily.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories they were--about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main. By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described. My father was always saying the inn would be ruined, for people would soon cease coming there to be tyrannized over and put down, and sent shivering to their beds; but I really believe his presence did us good. People were frightened at the time, but on looking back they rather liked it; it was a fine excitement in a quiet country life, and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog" and a "real old salt" and such like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“That was Flint's treasure that we had come so far to seek, and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola. How many it had cost in the ammassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“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.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out, knives going, and what not. 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—amen, so be it.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“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, quote from Treasure Island
“You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“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, quote from Treasure Island
“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, quote from Treasure Island
“But what is the black spot, captain?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“The man's tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another fever."
Ah, there," said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles."
That comed--as you call it--of being arrant asses.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door with a bit of stick like a handspike that he carried, and when my father appeared, called roughly for a glass of rum. This, when it was brought to him, he drank slowly, like a connoisseur, lingering on the taste and still looking about him at the cliffs and up at our signboard.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispanola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17—, and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow—a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards:”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“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 as our actual adventures.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“Now, Bill, sit where you are," said the beggar. "If I can't see, I can hear a finger stirring. Business is business. Hold out your right hand. Boy, take his right hand by the wrist and bring it near my right."
We both obeyed him to the letter, and I saw him pass something from the hollow of the hand that held his stick into the palm of the captain's, which closed upon it instantly.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Born place: in Edinburgh, Scotland
Born date November 13, 1850
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