Piggy Quotes

• 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.

  William Golding

  Pride, Savages, Lord

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.28, Hamilton Books

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• 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 rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Like You

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?

  William Golding

  Law, Lord, Hunts

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• 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.

  William Golding

  Wise, Fall, Heart

  Lord of the Flies ch. 12 (1954)

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• Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

  Jim Henson

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

  William Golding

  White, Lord, Fragments

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

  William Golding

  World, Slipping, Lord

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.105, Al Manhal

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.

  Spike Milligan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Spike Milligan (1993). “Hidden Words: Collected Poems”

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

  Jim Henson

  Beauty, Stupid, Humor

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• Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

  William Golding

  Thinking, Fancy Things, Reason Why

  Lord of the Flies ch. 8 (1954).

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• Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

  William Golding

  Cutting, Pigs, Bash

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.82, Hamilton Books

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• I was piggy. But I'm not that person anymore.

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Persons

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• Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Hunting, Law, Rescue

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.255, Penguin

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• The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

  William Golding

  Dream, Hurt

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.96, Al Manhal

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• I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

  William Golding

  Mean, People, No Fear

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.84, Penguin

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• A miracle is a single mom who works two jobs to care for her kids and still helps them with their homework at night. A miracle is a child donating all the money in their piggy bank to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. That's where you'll find the hand and face of God.

  Cathie Linz

  Mom, Jobs, Children

  Cathie Linz (2006). “Good Girls Do”, p.85, Penguin

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• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you when you went after the Questing Beast - and never caught it - but Piggy never laughed. She seemed to understand at once how interesting it was, and made several sensible suggestions about the way to trap it. Naturally, one did not pretend to be clever or anything, but it was nice not to be laughed at. One was doing one's best.

  T. H. White

  Daughter, Queens, Clever

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.248, Penguin

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• I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

  William Golding

  Hate, Kids, Thinking

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.72, Penguin

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• You don't happen to have a thousand dollars I can borrow?" "I don't have five you can borrow. My piggy bank is officialy anorexic.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dollars, Thousand, Happens

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't have 'five' you can borrow. My piggy bank is officially anorexic.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hush Hush, Five, Anorexics

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.

  Juan Rulfo

  Dream, Morning, Memories

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• You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim." That's right," said Miro. Ender smiled. "And that's why you'll never learn anything from them. Because you think of them as animals.

  Orson Scott Card

  Animal, Thinking, Ender

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga”, p.156, Hachette UK

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