Lord of the Flies Quotes
- "They used to call me Piggy!'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 1
- "The creature was a party of boys, marching..."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 1
- "'You're no good on a job like this.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 1
- "Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before...before him small children squatted in the grass."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 2
- "'Have you got any matches?'" Ch. 2
- "'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, Ch. 2
- "'You got your small fire all right.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 2
- "Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach... passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 3
- "The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch.3
- "Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 4
- "He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 4
- "'I painted my face--I stole up. Now you eat--all of you--and I--'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 4
- "Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 5
- "Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 5
- "Daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea yet."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 5
- "'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 5
- "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 5
- "Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 6
- "'You'll get back to where you came from.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 7
- "'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 7
- "The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 7
- "'We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 7
- "The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 7
- "He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 8
- "Piggy was... so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 8
- "'This head is for the beast. It's a gift.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 8
- "'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, Ch. 8
- "'You're not wanted..."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 8
- "'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 9
- "They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 9
- "There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 9
- "The water rose farther and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 9
- "surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea." Ch. 9
- "We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch.10
- "You can't tell what he might do."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 10
- "What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?" Ch. 10
- "'It's come... It's real!'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 10
- "'This is 'jus talk... I want my glasses.'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "'after all we aren't savages really...'"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "Ralph--remember what we came for. The fire. My specs."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?"
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
- "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist."
- William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Ch. 11
