Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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Famous William Golding Quotes
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Source: Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
“No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”
“We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.”
“Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.”
Source: Talk: conversations with William Golding
“At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.”
Source: The Spire: With an introduction by John Mullan
“I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.”
Source: The Spire: With an introduction by John Mullan
Source: Lord of the Flies
“Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
Source: DARKNESS VISIBLE
Source: Moving Target
“Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
“What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.”
Source: Rites of Passage: With an introduction by Robert McCrum
“Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.”
“How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.”
Source: Moving Target
Source: Moving Target
Source: Moving Target
“And I've been wearing specs since I was three.”
Source: Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“A star appeared...and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.”
“Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?”
Source: Lord of the Flies
“Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”
Source: Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies
“I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.”
Source: Talk: conversations with William Golding
“Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.”
Source: An Egyptian Journal
Source: To the Ends of the Earth