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Lord of the Flies QUOTES

Lord of the Flies QUOTES

1 " 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 one's feet. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

2 " The greatest ideas are the simplest. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

3 " I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

4 " The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

5 " The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

6 " Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

7 " 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. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

8 " We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

9 " Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

10 " 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. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

11 " The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

12 " We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

13 " 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 why it’s no go? Why things are what they are? "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

14 " What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

15 " Sucks to your ass-mar! "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

16 " If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything? "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

17 " The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

18 " They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

19 " His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies

20 " The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness. "

― William Golding , Lord of the Flies