All William Golding Quotes
- The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell. All
- They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. Along
- the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Ceased
- Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars. Ceased
- Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us. Beast
- The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. Any
- I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. Astonished
- The greatest ideas are the simplest. Greatest
- He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching… Considerable
- Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother. Attractive
- The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted… Alighted
- They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. Baffled
- Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards… Aimed
- You'll get back to where you came from. Came
- I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. Conviction
- People don't help much. Help
- Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess… Chess
- What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? Animal
- The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. Behind
- Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood. Blood
- This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. Fetch
- The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. Chief
- I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved… All
- The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares? Breaking
- If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll… Animal