does anyone know any good quotes from the lord of the flies book?
2006-07-12 02:51:23 · 5 answers · asked by chef 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
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2006-07-12 02:54:50 · answer #1 · answered by greengunge 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are my favorites from a longer list:
Quote 1: "'I don't care what [you] call me so long as...[it's not] what they used to call me in school...They used to call me Piggy!'" Chapter 1, pg. 11
Quote 7: "'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.'" Chapter 2, pg. 40
Quote 13: "He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling." Chapter 4, pg. 58
Quote 16: "Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another." Chapter 5, pg. 71
Quote 17: "'Life...is scientific....I know there isn't no beast...but I know there isn't no fear, either....Unless we get frightened of people.'" Chapter 5, pg. 76
Quote 18: "'[F]ear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island....Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" Chapter 5, pg. 75
Quote 19: "'Daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea yet.'" Chapter 5, pg. 79
Quote 20: "'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'" Chapter 5, pg. 80
Quote 21: "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away." Chapter 5, pg. 82
Quote 27: "'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'" Chapter 7, pg. 104
Quote 30: "'We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?'" Chapter 7, pg. 106
Quote 31: "Ralph...would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player." Chapter 7, pg. 106
Quote 32: "'[Ralph is] like Piggy....He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.'" Chapter 8, pg. 115
Quote 33: "Piggy was...so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood." Chapter 8, pg. 118
Quote 34: "'Right up her ***!'" Chapter 8, pg.123
Quote 35: "'This head is for the beast. It's a gift.'" Chapter 8, pg. 124
Quote 36: "[Simon's] eyes were half-closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick." Chapter 8, pg. 130
Quote 38: "'You're not wanted....on this island!...So don't try [to take] it on...or else....we shall do you. See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph.'" Chapter 8, pg. 131
Quote 39: "'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'" Chapter 9, pg. 138
Quote 40: "[The boys] found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror [of the makeshift beast] and made it governable." Chapter 9, pg. 138
Quote 41: "There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws." Chapter 9, pg. 139
Quote 42: "The water rose farther and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble." Chapter 9, pg. 140
Quote 44: "'We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.'" Chapter 10, pg. 143
Quote 46: "What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?" Chapter 10, pg. 150
Quote 49: "'[We should be] looking like we used to, washed and hair brushed -- after all we aren't savages really....'" Chapter 11, pg. 155
Quote 50: "A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve [of the shell] like a star." Chapter 11, pg. 156.
Quote 53: "'Ralph -- remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.'" Chapter 11, pg. 161
Quote 55: "'You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!'" Chapter 11, pg. 163
Quote 56: "'Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is....Which is better -- to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?'" Chapter 11, pg. 164
Quote 57: "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist." Chapter 11, pg. 164
Quote 58: "Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed." Chapter 11, pg. 165
Quote 60: "'They're not as bad as that. It was an accident.'" Chapter 12, pg. 168
Quote 67: "What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense." Chapter 12, pg. 179
Quote 68: "Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?" Chapter 12, pg. 180
Quote 73: "'I should have thought that a pack of British boys...would have been able to put up a better show than that....'" Chapter 12, pg. 184
Quote 74: "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." Chapter 12, pg. 184
2006-07-18 10:37:01 · answer #2 · answered by philk_ca 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many good quotes from this book, but for a thorough explanation of each, check out this websites/links:
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/ ....it's amazing!!!
2006-07-12 09:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
uhhh
oink oink KILL KILL KILLL
haha
I just sold my copy in a yard sale...
I knew I'd want to keep that around.
Great book.
2006-07-12 09:54:52 · answer #4 · answered by poopypants 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'You can't touch me. I have asthma'
Piggy. They killed him and ate his flesh.
2006-07-13 16:42:30 · answer #5 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋