This is the Iconic pirate novel from Robert Louis Stevenson with iconic symbols like the Black spot and Characters including Long John Silver, and this post has some of the iconic quotes form Treasure Island.
Book Quote, posts normally taken from just one book, this time it is divided into two sections. The first is quotes from his books as normal. Besides this their will be quotes from outside his literary works.
Quotes 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.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island opening line
“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, Treasure Island
“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
Robert Louis Steven, Treasure Island
“Dead men don’t bite”
Robert Louis Stevenson, 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, Treasure Island
“We must go on, because we can’t turn back.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, 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.
Robert Louis Stevenson, From Treasure Island
‘Not a thought,’ replied Dr. Livesey cheerily.”
“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, Treasure Island
“But what is the black spot, captain?”
Robert Louis Stevenson, 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, Treasure Island
“The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
The bar silver and the arms still lie, for all that I know, where Flint buried them; and certainly they shall lie there for me. Oxen and wain-ropes would not bring me back again to that accursed island; and the worst dreams that ever I have are when I hear the surf booming about its coasts or start upright in bed with the sharp voice of Captain Flint still ringing in my ears: “Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island Last Liner
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