William Golding Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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

  Sorry, Fire, People

• The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

  William Golding

  Hair, Water, Rose

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.281, Al Manhal

• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  William Golding

  Strong, Children, School

• Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

  William Golding

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

  William Golding (1980). “Rites of Passage”

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