Famous Quotes / William Golding
14 Quotations by William Golding
- 1. Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame ...
- 2. An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of ...
- 3. Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
- 4. Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
- 5. Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on ...
- 6. Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
- 7. Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should ...
- 8. Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
- 9. The greatest ideas are the simplest.
- 10. The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov ...
- 11. The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what ...
- 12. To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything ...
- 13. Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state if they are to be treated ...
- 14. What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.