S2 Final Quote Review

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.

Jack

The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain… so you shut up.

Jack

I got the conch! I got the conch!

Piggy

Which is better—to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph?

Piggy

I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you.

Jack

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

Simon

What I mean is… maybe it's only us.

Simon

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.

The boys (chanting)

Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry… Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him.

Narrator

You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?

The Lord of the Flies

I'm frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.

Piggy

The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments.

Narrator

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

Ralph

I painted my face—I stole up. Now you eat—all of you—and I—

Jack

The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island.

Narrator (Ralph)

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

Ralph

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

Jack

I got to be chief. Because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.

Jack

He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them.

Narrator (Simon)

You'll get back to where you came from.

Simon (to Ralph)

The rules are the only thing we've got!

Ralph

I gave you food. And my hunters will protect you from the beast.

Jack

We'll raid them. We'll get more of their fire.

Jack

He says the beast is sitting up there by the signal fire.

Samneric (lying)

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart.

Narrator

I Oedipus, whom all men call the great.

Oedipus

You pray to the gods? Let me grant your prayers.

Oedipus

I will fight for him as if he were my own father.

Oedipus

What are you? A false prophet? A charlatan?

Oedipus (to Tiresias)

You are the curse, the corruption of the land!

Tiresias (to Oedipus)

How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!

Tiresias

Creon is my friend. He means no harm. You are wrong to accuse him.

Jocasta

Go then, if you must. But I tell you: the man you seek is himself. He is you.

Tiresias

I am the one who killed him. I did not know. I curse myself.

Oedipus

Let every man regard the last day as most important. Call no man happy until he is dead.

Chorus

I would kill my father and marry my mother? I fled. I never returned.

Oedipus

Why should a man fear? Chance rules our lives.

Jocasta

Now I am hated by the gods, son of a sinful mother, heir to my father's bed.

Oedipus

You, you wretch, do you see me now? Do you see what I have become?

Oedipus (to Creon)

Do not seek to be master of everything. Your mastery of yourself is enough.

Chorus

Time sees all. It has found you out.

Chorus

Light of the sun, let me look upon you no more.

Oedipus

I have done these things to myself. I have blinded myself.

Oedipus

Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man who is wise!

Oedipus

Count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

Chorus

I was born of such a marriage. I am the man who fathered children with his own mother.

Oedipus

What good is life to me? I am a man despised by gods and men.

Oedipus

Give me a sword, I say, to cut out this womb of sin.

Oedipus

He who came to solve the riddle and was mighty, who among men did not envy his prosperity?

Chorus

Behold this man of misery. Behold what has become of the great and mighty Oedipus.

Chorus

All animals are equal.

Old Major / pigs

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Sheep

I will work harder.

Boxer

Napoleon is always right.

Boxer

The only good human being is a dead one.

Snowball

You do not want Jones back?

Squealer

The windmill is a symbol of our struggle.

Snowball

Comrade Napoleon is the guardian of the farm.

Squealer

The Commandments are not changed. They are being improved upon.

Squealer

Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty?

Squealer

Napoleon has spoken!

Squealer

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig… but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Narrator

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal.

Squealer

I would not have believed that such things could happen on our farm.

Clover

All that year the animals worked like slaves.

Narrator

Comrades, you have heard already about the strange dream that I had last night.

Old Major

The life of an animal is misery and slavery.

Old Major

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.

Old Major

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

Old Major

I have no wish to take life, not even human life.

Boxer

The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others.

Narrator

All the animals remembered passing resolutions against killing humans.

Narrator

The truest happiness lay in working hard and living frugally.

Boxer

If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip.

Narrator (Clover)

The name of the farm was changed back to Manor Farm.

Narrator

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Lysander

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.

Helena

I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, the more you beat me, I will fawn on you.

Helena

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; but yet you draw not iron, for my heart is true as steel.

Helena

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Puck

I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.

Puck

My mistress with a monster is in love.

Puck

Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

Bottom

I see your knavery is this. This is your spite: to make me speak in spite of my true love.

Demetrius (to Helena)

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact.

Theseus

So quick bright things come to confusion.

Lysander

I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

Bottom

Jack shall have Jill; naught shall go ill.

Puck

If we shadows have offended, think but this, and all is mended.

Puck

The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.

Theseus

The more I love, the more he hates me.

Helena

I am invisible. I am the fairy king.

Oberon

What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?

Titania

A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.

Bottom (of himself)

Let me play the lion too. I will roar that I will do any man's heart good to hear me.

Bottom

I see their knavery. This is to make an ass of me.

Bottom

Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, the ear more quick of apprehension makes.

Helena

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

Helena

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

Lysander

So we grew together, like to a double cherry.

Helena (of Hermia and herself)