Important Quotations Explained
1. 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!
2. “I
have only one thing to say to you, sir â if you keep on drinking
rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”
3. “Well,
squire â I don't put much faith in your discoveries, as a general
thing; but I will say this, John Silver suits me.”
4. 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. 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.
5. 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: âPieces of eight! pieces
of eight!'
