You can kill the body, but not the spirit.[to Mr. Hands]
We must go on, because we can’t turn back.
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.
There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terwards, you may lay to that.[to Tom Morgan]
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.
Sir, with no intention to take offense, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.[said Captain Smollett]
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!
I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m not to have my rum now I’m a poor old hulk on a lee shore.
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest – Yo-ko-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
Dead men don’t bite.[repeated often in the rest of the book]