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There is, they say, no fool like an old fool. — William Golding

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. — William Golding

-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy — William Golding

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. — William Golding

Worse than madness. Sanity. — William Golding

If you don't change your hairstyle because it's mostly fallen out and you don't shave, you've no cause to go chasing yourself in a mirror. — William Golding

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 player. — William Golding

He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were. — William Golding

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares? — William Golding

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled. — William Golding

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers ... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding

Sucks to your ass-mar! — William Golding

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. — William Golding

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. — William Golding

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? — William Golding

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do. — William Golding

With an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy. — William Golding

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear — William Golding

Who would sharpen a point aginst the darkness of the world? — William Golding

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding

Listen, Ralph. Never mind what's sense. That's gone
— William Golding

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good ... it must always have a cost. — William Golding

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

A battle cheapens life and I find life cheap enough already — 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 Piggy. — William Golding

Friends will hand over anything that is needed and think nothing of it! — William Golding

I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce. — William Golding

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. — William Golding

I hope my books make statements about our general condition. — William Golding

We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we? — William Golding

The greatest ideas are the simplest. — William Golding

You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief! — William Golding

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

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [ ... ] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us. — William Golding

People don't help much. — William Golding

Heaven lies around us in our infancy. — William Golding

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in! — William Golding

Thought was a valuable thing, that got results. — William Golding

We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was. — William Golding

A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star. — William Golding

The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight. — William Golding

As long as there's light we're brave enough — William Golding

I wish my auntie was here."
"I wish my father.. O, what's the use? — William Golding

It's simpler to believe in a miracle. — William Golding

What I mean is... maybe it's only us... — William Golding

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it. — William Golding

I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids. — William Golding

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. — William Golding

Life itself is a rickety building — William Golding

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that. — William Golding

There was no light left save that of the stars. — William Golding

They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. — William Golding

Perhaps there is a beast...
maybe it's only us. — William Golding

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' — Philip Zimbardo

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong? — William Golding

The best novels, the writer's imagination becomes the reader's reality. — William Golding

But for all the feet that had trodden it, it remained ordinary dust, which seemed to make everything much sadder. — William Golding

Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no. — William Golding

Which is better
to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? — William Golding

Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, — William Golding

Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean. — William Golding

I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids. — William Golding

A star appeared ... and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement. — William Golding

I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper. — William Golding

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. — William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies. — William Golding

I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding — William Golding

How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper? — William Golding

If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words. — William Golding

They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood — William Golding

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. — William Golding

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller. — William Golding

an incantation of hatred. — William Golding

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless. — William Golding

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. — William Golding

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. — William Golding

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. — William Golding

Of course we're frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. — William Golding

Bit by bit [the Second World War] really changed my view of what people were capable of, and therefore what human nature was. — William Golding

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind. — William Golding

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. — William Golding

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. — William Golding

For a small island [Great Britain], the place is remarkably diverse. — William Golding

Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict. — William Golding

I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do. — William Golding

Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar — William Golding

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses. — William Golding

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human. — William Golding

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme. — William Golding

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

They would reach the castle some time; and the chief would have to go forward. — William Golding

The crying went on, breath after breath, and seemed to sustain him upright as if he were nailed to it. — William Golding

What did it mean? A stick sharpened at both ends. What was there in that? — William Golding

If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. — William Golding

If only one had time to think! — William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience. — William Golding

Piggy once more was the centre of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal. — William Golding

This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and a shirt. — William Golding

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun. — William Golding

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. — William Golding