The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
("Lord of the Flies")
More Quotes from William Golding:
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
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William Golding
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
William Golding
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
William Golding
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
William Golding
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
William Golding
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Flowers Quotes, Possession QuotesBased on Keywords: candle-buds
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.
Romano Prodi
I expected results.
Bernie Ebbers
I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
Carl Paladino