William Golding Quotes
"Best Hair" award, Oxford 1930.
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William Golding Quotes
Let's just say Golding's vision of a stranded social group didn't look anything like Gilligan's Island. Click on any William Golding quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale.
"He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: 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."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding