William Golding
William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding CBEwas a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 September 1911
William Golding quotes about
learning science discovery
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
flower white islands
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
forgiveness given
But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.
wheels lamps bus
What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
goes-on grownups
We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.
philosophy blow wind
Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
fun islands fetch
This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
fool
There is, they say, no fool like an old fool.
stories philosopher theologian
I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
sorry fire 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.'
firsts put-first-things-first ifs
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?
experience should series
Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
patience sea sailing
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
childhood disease sickness
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.