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.

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!"

I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile.

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

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.

Them that die'll be the lucky ones.

Seaward, ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

I don't like this cruise; I don't like the men; and I don't like my officer. That's short and sweet.

I no more fear you than I fear a fly.

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

If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that.