KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

William Golding Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by William Golding

Showing 1-10 of 26 Quotes by William Golding

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

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense of peril, their own common sense. The one thing they cannot understand is why that same love of life, sense of peril and above all common sense, is not invariably shared among their leaders and rulers.

~William Golding

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: September 19th, 1911

Died: June 19th, 1993

Links

Find William Golding on Amazon

Related Authors

Emily Bronte
Anthony Burgess
Charles Dickens
E. M. Forster
Thomas Hardy
Aldous Huxley
William Makepeace Thackeray
J. R. R. Tolkien

Popular Authors

Susan B. Anthony Marcus Aurelius Ambrose Bierce Heraclitus Stephen King Dalai Lama Albert Schweitzer Henry David Thoreau

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1938 - Kofi Annan

1947 - Robert Kiyosaki

1732 - David Rittenhouse

1859 - Edmund Husserl

1869 - Harvey Cushing

1888 - Dennis Chavez

1892 - Mary Pickford

1896 - E. Y. Harburg

1903 - Ilka Chase

1911 - Emil Cioran

Birthdays on April 8th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Age Alone Education Fitness Graduation Politics Space Sympathy