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

  William Golding

  Law, Lord, Hunts

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

  Dennis Kozlowski

  Persons

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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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• 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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• 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 beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.

  John Paulson

  Goal, Piggy Bank

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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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• 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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• 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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• Okay, now I know your yanking my chain. Pigs will fly before Blake would ask for our help." Rhoan "Better start ducking those flying piggies then, bro, because I'm totally serious." Riley

  Keri Arthur

  Pigs, Flying, Serious

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• Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

  William Golding

  Believe, Mean, Nuts

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• Our jobs are fleeing the country. They're going to Mexico. They're going to many other countries. You look at what China is doing to our country in terms of making our product. They're devaluing their currency, and there's nobody in our government to fight them. And we have a very good fight. And we have a winning fight. Because they're using our country as a piggy bank to rebuild China, and many other countries are doing the same thing.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

  Christopher Moore

  Turtles, Sharks, Sea

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Island Of The Sequined Love Nun: A Novel”, p.173, Hachette UK

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