Lord of the Flies quotes

• Simon

  'Maybe there is a beast... Maybe it's only us.
• Roger


  'Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.´
• Civilisation VS savagery

  'Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart'
• Power and leadership

  "You voted me chief now you do as I say"
• Group dynamics - Piggy's comment

  'Like a crowd of kids
• Simon's death- innocence leaving the island

  "Simon's dead body moved out towards the sea"
• Violence

  'Flung stones between the twins
• Ralph on Piggy

  'He's not fatty. He's piggy!
• Ralph

  'I can't think, not like piggy.
• Piggy

  'You let me speak!
• Piggy

  'Because what's rights, right
• Jack on the beast

  'My hunters will protect you from the beast
• Civilisation VS savagery

  'Which is better- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?
• Civilisation VS savagery

  'The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist'
• Group dynamics - Ralph on the Beast

  'I tell you, there isn't a beast!
• Jack, 2, English


  "We've got to have rules and obey them. We're not savages. We're English"
• LotF, 8, Fancy


  "Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill"
• Ralph, 10, frightened


  "I'm frightened. Of us"
• Jack, arrogance

  "I ought to be cheif" Jack said with simple arrogance.
• Ralph, what went wrong


  "We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?"
• Jack's response to rules

  "Bollocks to the rules!"
• Jack being proud of his violence


  "I cut the pig's throat"
• Ralph's authority


  "I'm chief, I'll go. Don't argue"
• Jack after hunting the sow


  "This head is for the beast. It's a gift."
• Ralph- hands up


  "Hands up, like at school"
• Jack's obession with hunting


  "We're strong- we hunt"
• Ralph arguing with Jack over fire

  "Don't you want to be rescued? All you talk about is pig, pig, pig!"
• Fire out- Ralph

  "They let the bloody fire out."
• Choir


  "The creature was a party of boys, marching in parallel lines"
• Piggy- conch


  "I've got the conch, I've got a right to speak"
• Jack atavism


  "Bent double", "Ape like", "dog-like" "Madness came into his eyes"
• Pigs head to Simon

  "You're not wanted"
• Pigs head taunting simon


  "I'm part of you"
• Boys excitement over killing sow

  "excited by the dropped blood"
• Shelters for rain


  "If it rains, we'll need shelters"
• Decision on having a chief


  "We ought to have a chief to decided things"
• Conch for silence


  "..held up the conch for silence"
• Excitement over dropped blood

  "excited by the long chase and dropped blood"
• British


  "We're british, the best at everything"
• Naval officer 


  "I would've thought that British boys would have been able to put up a better show than this"