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
believe ignorance men
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
moving fall journey
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
passionate ease opinion
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
together disharmony
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
eye vision moments
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
war men years
Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey must have been blind or wrong in the head.
savages
We're not savages. We're English.
men thinking foolish
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
pride savages lord
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.