Lord of the Flies Character Quotes Quiz

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"'Bollocks to the rules! We're strong - we hunt!'"

"'I expect we'll want to know all their names..and make a list. We ought to have a meeting.'"

"a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and course".

"You could see he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness in the shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil."

"He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat"

"The shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and make what had seemed at first unsociable remoteness in to something foreboding."

"They breathed together, they grinned together, they were chunky and vital."

" The waves turned the corpse gently in the water. ... Softly, surrounded by a fringe of bright inquisitive creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, [his] dead body moved out towards the open sea".

"Then [he] was standing cradling the great cream shell"

"And in the middle of them, with Filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, [he] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend"

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"carried death in his hands".

"Like candles. Candle bushes. Candle buds"

"The creature was a party of boys, marching . . . "

"'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.'"

"[he] . . . 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."

"'I don't care what [you] call me so long as . . . [it's not] what they used to call me in school"

"'I think we ought to climb the mountain'"

"kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy."

"protested out of the heart of civilization, 'Oh, I say! –honestly!'"

"[he] himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath; and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees"