Quote

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

William Golding

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Golding
Age: 81 †
Born: 1911
Born: September 19
Died: 1993
Died: June 19
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Newquay
Cornwall
William Gerald Albert Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding
Kill
Law
Lord
Better
Piggy
Hunt
Hunts
Agree
Laws

More quotes by William Golding

Image
The rules! shouted Ralph, you're breaking the rules! Who cares?
William Golding
Image
And I've been wearing specs since I was three.
William Golding
Image
Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding
Image
The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
William Golding
Image
The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
William Golding
Image
I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.
William Golding
Image
Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.
William Golding
Image
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
William Golding
Image
The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'
William Golding
Image
I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.
William Golding
Image
Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
William Golding
Image
I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.
William Golding
Image
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
William Golding
Image
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.
William Golding
Image
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
William Golding
Image
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
Image
I am here and here is nowhere in particular.
William Golding
Image
My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.
William Golding
Image
You'll get back to where you came from.
William Golding
Image
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