30+ 'Treasure Island' Quotes That All Budding Pirates Will Love

'Treasure Island' is one of the best adventure novels and is an important literary work in English.

Written by Scottish author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who specialized in the adventure genre, this book had been exceptionally popular amongst contemporary readers. It greatly influenced people's general perception of pirates because of their stark portrayal in the novel.

It is a coming-of-age story centered on the protagonist Jim Hawkins who sets out on an expedition to find an island that supposedly has buried treasure in it as per a map that they came across. It is a novel resplendent with the themes of adventure, exploration, the journey to self-discovery, and the like.

Here's a list of some of the choicest quotes from the novel.

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'Treasure Island' Book Quotes

Here's a list of some of the best quotes from 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson including quotes about pirates and quotes about sailing.

1. "I wish I had put his eyes out!"

- Pew, Chapter V.

2. "Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!"

-Captain Flint, Chapter X.

3. "Fetch aft the rum, Darby!"

-Ben Gunn, Chapter XXXII.

4. "I have only one thing to say to you, sir … if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"

-Dr. Livesey, Chapter I.

5. "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!"

-The Pirates, Chapter I.

6. “Well, squire … I don’t put much faith in your discoveries, as a general thing; but I will say this, John Silver suits me.”

-Dr. Livesey, Chapter VIII.

7. "Dead men don't bite"

-Israel Hands, Chapter XI.

8. "We must go on, because we can't turn back."

-Mr. Smollet, Chapter XII.

9. "I'll be as silent as the grave."

Squire Trelawney, Chapter VI.

10. "Well, sir ... better speak plain ... I don't like this cruise; I don't like the men; and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet."

Captain Smollett, Chapter XI.

11. "There is a kind of fate in this ... Every step, it's you that saves our lives."

Dr. Livesey, Chapter XXX.

12. "Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly"

-Ben Gunn, Chapter XV.

13. "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!"

-Captain Smollett, Chapter XX.

Long John Silver Quotes

Here is a glittering list of some of the best 'Treasure Island' quotes about pirates that will make your soul crave for some adventure.

14. "Them that die will be the lucky ones!"

-Long John Silver, Chapter XX.

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

Long John Silver, Chapter XII.

16. "There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward."

-Long John Silver, Chapter XXVIII.

17. "And now, shipmates, this black spot? 'Tain't much good now, is it? Dick's crossed his luck and spoiled his Bible, and that's about all"

- Long John Silver, Chapter XXIX.

18. "There was some that was feared of Pew, and some that was feared of Flint; but Flint his own self was feared of me."

-Long John Silver, Chapter XI.

19. "You may lay to that."

-Long John Silver, Chapter XVIII.

20. "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."

-Long John Silver, Chapter VIII.

21. "‘See here, now, Hawkins,’ said he, ‘here’s a blessed hard thing on a man like me, now, ain’t it? There’s Cap’n Trelawney—what’s he to think? Here I have this confounded son of a Dutchman sitting in my own house drinking of my own rum!'"

-Long John Silver, Chapter VIII.

22. "Did any of you gentlemen want to have it out with ME?"

-Long John Silver, Chapter XXVIII.

24. "'You came in in about the nick, I guess, for me and Hawkins. And so it’s you, Ben Gunn!’ he added. ‘Well, you’re a nice one, to be sure.'"

-Long John Silver, Chapter XXXIII.

25. "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."

-Long John Silver, XXVIII.

26. "'Avast, there!... Who are you, Tom Morgan? Maybe you thought you was cap’n here, perhaps.

By the powers, but I’ll teach you better! Cross me, and you’ll go where many a good man’s gone before you, first and last, these thirty year back—some to the yard-arm, shiver my timbers, and some by the board, and all to feed the fishes.

There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terwards..."

-Long John Silver, XXVIII.

Jim Hawkins Quotes

A book packed with an adventure on the high seas, here is a list of 'Treasure Island' quotes by chapter by Jim Hawkins and also about sailing.

27. "He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea cloak with a hood, that made him appear positively deformed.

I never saw in my life a more dreadful-looking figure."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter III.

28. "His left leg was cut off close by the hip, and under the left shoulder he carried a crutch, which he managed with wonderful dexterity, hopping about upon it like a bird. He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham-plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter VIII.

29. "From trunk to trunk the creature flitted like a deer, running manlike on two legs, but unlike any man that I had ever seen, stooping almost double as it ran."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XV.

30. "But one man of her crew alive. What put to sea with seventy-five."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXIII.

31. "I was no sooner certain of this than I began to feel sick, faint, and terrified.

The hot blood was running over my back and chest.

The dirk, where it had pinned my shoulder to the mast, seemed to burn like a hot iron; yet it was not so much these real sufferings that distressed me ... it was the horror I had upon my mind of falling from the cross-trees into that still green water beside the body of the coxswain."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXVII.

32. "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!’"

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXXIV.

33. "I scarce can say it was by my own volition, and I am sure it was without conscious aim."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXVI.

34. "I no more fear you than I fear a fly. Kill me, if you please, or spare me."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXVIII.

35. "My heart was sore for him, wicked as he was, to think on the dark perils that environed and the shameful gibbet that awaited him."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXIX.

36. "I clung with both hands till my nails ached, and I shut my eyes as if to cover up the peril. Gradually my mind came back again, my pulses quieted down to a more natural time, and I was once more in possession of myself."

-Jim Hawkins, Chapter XXVII.

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