Lord of the Flies quotes

• Kill the Beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!
• Kids' names [...] why should I be Jack? I'm Merridew
• 'I ought to be chief.' said Jack with simple arrogance.
• There was a gash visible in the trees
• The enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
• We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English and the English are the best at everything.
• How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?
• Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was.
• All the same, I'd like to catch a pig first.
• The sun gazed down like an angry eye.
• Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.
• The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness
• His laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.
• An awesome stranger
• The mask compelled them
• He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow.
• He noticed blood on his hands and grimaced distastefully
• "I cut the pig's throat" said Jack proudly, and yet twitched as he said it.
• The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
• What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think?
• a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand.
• Let's have a vote.
• We'll have to have hands up like at school.
• The madness came about his eyes again. "I thought I might kill."
• Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach.
• Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
• Bollocks to the rules!
• The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering
• Skipping page twenty-seven with that awful picture of the spider.
• A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack.
• The creature lifted its head, holding towards them the ruins of a face.
• The air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror.
• This head is for the beast. It's a gift.
• The head remained there, dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth.
• Aren't you afraid of me? [...] There isn't anyone to help you. Only me. And I'm the Beast.
• Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!
• You knew didn't you? I'm a part of you?
• The beast was harmless and horrible.
• The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody.
• The poor broken thing .