William Golding Quotes

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

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

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.

It's simpler to believe in a miracle.

Life […] is scientific, that’s what it is.

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

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

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

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

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

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

Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.

What else is there to do?

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor, " said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".

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.

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

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

Life itself is a rickety building

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

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

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

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

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

The way towards simplicity is through outrage.

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