All William Golding Quotes
- Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. Impenetrable
- One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next… Come Gradually
- He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but… Die
- Heaven lies around us in our infancy. Heaven
- But forgiveness must not only be given but received also. Forgiveness
- To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that… Act
- My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder. Faces
- Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. Experience
- He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. Nile
- The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured… Became
- We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. All
- What kind of human person has a favorite eraser? Eraser
- Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. Became
- Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason… Beast
- Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a… Anarchic
- If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything? Face
- Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? Agree
- Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in! Bash
- 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 Piggy. Air
- The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. Beast
- We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? Adults
- His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that… Closed
- Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in… Amazement
- The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Inspirational
- We're not savages. We're English. English