- Gates: There are no legacies in this life are there? No monuments, no histories, just the water. It pays us, and then it claims us - swallows us whole.
- John Silver: Told you I was certain about my information regarding the Urca. Fortunately, you and I forgot to take into account of weather. The Urca de Lima wrecked at sea last night, dashed by the storm.
- Captain Charles Vane: You spend enough time on an island, you forget there's a whole world out there.
- De Groot: Time and again he gambles with our lives... that is, when he's not taking them in cold blood.