If faces were different when lit from above or below — what was a face? What was anything?
WILLIAM GOLDINGHonestly, I haven’t the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
More William Golding Quotes
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.
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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
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A star appeared…and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
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As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn’t seen him on their box, buy the paperback.
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I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
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We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?
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This is our island. It’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.
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I’m scared of him,” said Piggy, “and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.
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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
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The mask was a thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.
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We’re all mad, the whole damned race. We’re wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we’re all mad and in solitary confinement.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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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.’
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Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
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