Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what ...
WILLIAM GOLDING Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should...
WILLIAM GOLDING Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast.
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph sto...
WILLIAM GOLDING Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
WILLIAM GOLDING Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated...
WILLIAM GOLDING To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything...
WILLIAM GOLDING It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditione...
WILLIAM GOLDING Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on...
WILLIAM GOLDING I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...
WILLIAM GOLDING I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have be...
WILLIAM GOLDING He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM GOLDING I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of...
WILLIAM GOLDING Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
WILLIAM GOLDING Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, wes...
WILLIAM GOLDING Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic populariza...
WILLIAM GOLDING Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
WILLIAM GOLDING The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get p...
WILLIAM GOLDING I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces ...
WILLIAM GOLDING Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame...
WILLIAM GOLDING Childhood is a disease -- a sickness that you grow out of.
WILLIAM GOLDING Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structur...
WILLIAM GOLDING I have been in many countries, and I have found there people examining their own love of life, sense...
WILLIAM GOLDING To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything...
WILLIAM GOLDING There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
WILLIAM GOLDING I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
WILLIAM GOLDING I must have been an unsatisfactory child for grownups to deal with. I remember how incomprehensible ...
WILLIAM GOLDING Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part o...
WILLIAM GOLDING The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not...
WILLIAM GOLDING His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme...
WILLIAM GOLDING I had never met the Roman Catholuc Church outside of a history book. To come across it living, so to...
WILLIAM GOLDING It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and t...
WILLIAM GOLDING At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
WILLIAM GOLDING When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.
WILLIAM GOLDING He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welco...
WILLIAM GOLDING I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'm...
WILLIAM GOLDING The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov...
WILLIAM GOLDING The greatest ideas are the simplest.
WILLIAM GOLDING -Iti spun un lucru. Ce este mai apropiat decat fratele de frate, mama de copil?Ce este mai apropiat ...
WILLIAM GOLDING Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
WILLIAM GOLDING It's simpler to believe in a miracle.
WILLIAM GOLDING I was the only boy in our school what had asthma," said the fat boy with a touch of pride. "And I've...
WILLIAM GOLDING A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read agai...
WILLIAM GOLDING It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and ...
WILLIAM GOLDING We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and ...
WILLIAM GOLDING We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the pe...
WILLIAM GOLDING I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.
WILLIAM GOLDING The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
WILLIAM GOLDING I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginati...
WILLIAM GOLDING Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.'
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
WILLIAM GOLDING -I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
WILLIAM GOLDING In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person...
WILLIAM GOLDING I want the truth of things. But there's nowhere to find it.
WILLIAM GOLDING They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you?
WILLIAM GOLDING The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to mov...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Ame...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what ...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of ...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind
WILLIAM G. GOLDING Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
WILLIAM G. GOLDING You will remember that when we had (annual) conference in December we put the party on 'election wat...
BRUCE GOLDING I consider it to be a disgrace that we are back here today, and all we are looking at is ashes.
BRUCE GOLDING Simpson Miller has been, indeed, like all the other contenders are - persons that are a part of the ...
BRUCE GOLDING I think that there is a great level of disaffection in the country in terms of the performance of th...
BRUCE GOLDING There are too many agencies to report to, too many returns that have to be filed.
BRUCE GOLDING Unfortunately, these are not problems that we can leave behind in 2005. They will cling to us and fo...
BRUCE GOLDING On none of the previous occasions where there has been a transition of leadership has it been so pro...
BRUCE GOLDING Today was certainly not business as usual. Nowhere in the country was it that way.
BRUCE GOLDING The government has gone deaf. They are not listening to the people and this is a time for them to st...
BRUCE GOLDING If Christmas is to mean anything, it must reinforce in us our duty to each other.
BRUCE GOLDING I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
META GOLDING DHCP, the protocol that networks use to assign IP addresses, is the logical place for network access...
DAN GOLDING When you have a long menu of pages and pages, it's hard to choose, but if you have a small menu then...
BRUCE GOLDING Just to come out and have this kind of an audience out there for you, it just lifts you when you get...
GRANT GOLDING Instead of having lots of boxes stacked up, you have one chassis in which you put in many CPU blades...
DAN GOLDING I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my h...
META GOLDING One thing about branch-in-a-box devices is they're designed to sit out in a branch for three, four, ...
DAN GOLDING I just think it comes down to the fact we're out there having fun. You could see how the hard work i...
GRANT GOLDING Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH