Lord of the Flies Quotes by William Golding

We have curated a list of the best quotes from the book “Lord of the Flies”. Let’s get a look at quotes.

Lord of the Flies Quotes by William Golding

Lord of the Flies was published in 1954 and it was the debut novel authored by William Golding. This book tells about a group of British boys who came to an uninhabited island without any resources and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. This book’s theme includes tension between individual thinking and thinking of a group, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality

So now it is enough to talk about this book, now let’s talk about the quotes of this book. Let’s get into the list of quotes from the Lord of the Flies book. 

List of Best Quotes from “Lord of the Flies” Book:-

1. “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.”

2. “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.”

3. “We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”

4. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

5. “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”

6. “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”

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

8. “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”

9. “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.”

10. “They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.”

11. “They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.”

12. “Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

13. “People don’t help much.”

14. “the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”

15. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”

16. “The beast was harmless and horrible, and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.”

17. “He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.”

18. “We’re not savages. We’re English.”

19. “If only one had time to think!”

20. “They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.”

21. “You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!”

22. “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now-and the ship had gone.”

23. “Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure and content.”

24. “Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.”

25. “As long as there’s light we’re brave enough”

26. “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.”

27. “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.”

28. “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.”

29. “He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.”

30. “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.”

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Wrapping Up

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