Treasure Island Quotes

• I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Wife, Alcohol

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.586, e-artnow

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• 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

  Men, Voice, Listening

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Annotated Treasure Island with English Grammar Exercises: by Robert Louie Stevenson (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.79, Powell Publications, LLC

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• 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

  Men, Devil, Bottles

  Treasure Island ch. 1 (1883). Stevenson took the phrase dead man's chest from a pirate name for an isle in Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 1 (1870).

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• Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Mouths, Intention, Deny

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Treasure Island”, p.39, Aegitas

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  There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.

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• Every island to a child is a treasure island.

  P. D. James

  Children, Islands, Treasure

  P. D. James (2008). “The Lighthouse”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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• I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Running, Believe, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )”, p.105, e-artnow

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

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Sea, Treasure, Glory

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Treasure Island (Illustrated Edition): Adventure Tale of Buccaneers and Buried Gold by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.34, e-artnow

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• If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Drinking, Dirty, Alcohol

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1884). “Treasure Island”, p.8

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• Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Night, Long, Cheese

  'Treasure Island' (1883) ch. 15

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• 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

  Together, Looks, Salt

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2012). “Treasure Island”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.

  John Mortimer

  Children, Believe, Book

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• So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?

  Joseph Heller

  Book, Men, Islands

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• I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Growing Up, Dad

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• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

  Andrew Motion

  Islands, Firsts, Gone

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did.

  N. C. Wyeth

  Islands, Quality, Treasure

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• Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of a pirate ship, which had been captained by one of the most remarkable pirates in history. This is a real-life Treasure Island, complete with swashbuckling, half-crazy treasure hunters and vivid Caribbean settings-a story for the ages.

  Douglas Preston

  Crazy, Real, Book

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• The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.

  Tony Robbins

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

  Robin Hobb

  Running, Reading, Book

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