Book Quotes by William Golding

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

— William Golding

“Sucks to your ass-mar!”

— William Golding

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called…

— William Golding

“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,…

— William Golding

“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.”

— William Golding

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge…

— William Golding

“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to…

— William Golding

When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.…

— William Golding

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

— William Golding

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

— William Golding

“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”

— William Golding

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop…

— William Golding

The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

— William Golding

“But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because…

— William Golding

“I think women are foolish to pretend that they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.”

— William Golding