William Golding Quotes (10+)

Enjoy the best William Golding Quotes. Quotations by William Golding (English Novelist and Nobel Laureate)
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Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

The thing is – fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart...

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

About the Author

Sir William Golding (1911–1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. He is best known for his debut novel 'Lord of the Flies,' and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.