ALL Quotes + Iambic Pentameter

“What I mean is.. maybe it's only us”

Simon

“I said smoke! We've got to have some smoke.”

Ralph

“You can take speares if you want but I shan't. What's the good? I'll have to be led like a dog, anyhow. Yes, laugh. Go on, laugh.”

Piggy

“All the same. You'll get back all right. I think so, anyway.”

Simon

““I'm noy going to play any longer. Not with you.”

Jack

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!… You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?”

Lord of the Flies

“Has everyone eaten as much as they want?”

Jack

“I should have thought that a pack of British boys…would have been able to put up a better shoe than that- I mean-”

Officer

“Won't you come? Three of us- we'd stand a chance.”

Ralph

“It was dark. There was that- that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!”

Piggy

“The Sphinx. Her riddles stopped our ears and brought destruction.”

Creon

“Then let your condcience rest. Hear me. I have no belief in the prophetic art.”

Jocasta

“You are a wicked man. Your silence would anger a lifeless stone.”

Oedipus

“If you care for your life…stop now. No more! My pain is hard enough.”

Jocasta

“His words are carefully chosen. This demands discretion. There should be no rush to judgement.”

Chorus

“Let me go. Do not keep me here. It would be best if you bear your burden and I mine.”

Teiresias

“Let them hear. For I suffer for them more than for myself.”

Oedipus

“Now begin to reason logically as I have. Would any man choose the troubles, the anxiety of power if he had that power but without the responsibility?”

Creon

“But of all men you are tje most wise in the ways of god.”

Priest

“I have not come here to mock you… nor to reproach you for what happened in the past.”

Creon

“We have built the walls far too thick for that. They could not knock it down in a week. Courage, comrades!”

Napoleon

“Comrades, I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself”

Squealer

“Will there still be sugar after the Rebellion?”

Mollie

“Now comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short… No animal in England is free.”

Old Major

“Fools! Do you not see what is written on the side of that van?”

Benjamin

“I will work harder.”

Boxer

“No sentimentality, comrade! War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

Snowball

“And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.”

Old Major

“Comrades! You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and priviledge? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples…Milk and apples contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig.”

Squealer

“Tactis comrades, tactics!”

Squealer

“Life would go on as it had always gone on- that is, badly.”

Benjamin

“…up there, just on the other side of that dark cloud that you can see there it lies, Sugarcandy Mountain, that happy country where we poor animals shall rest forever from our labours!”

Moses

“Ribbons should be considered as clothes, which are the mark of a human being. All animals should go nakes”

Snowball

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”

Old Major

“I do not believe that Snowball was a traitor at the beginning.”

Boxer

“And shall I still be allowed to wear ribbons in my mane?”

Mollie

“The course of true love never did run smooth”

Lysander

“Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania”

Oberon

“Do I entice you? Do I speak you fair? Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?”

Demetrius

“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you habe but slumbered here while these visions did appear”

Robin Goodfellow

“Your virtue is my priviledge”

Helena

“What angel wakes me from my flow'ry bed?”

Titania

“To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays”

Bottom

“O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd. She was a vixen when she went to school, and thought she be but little, she is fierce”

Helena

“And are you grown so high in his esteem because I am so dwarfish and so low? How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak.”

Hermia

“I have heard it over, and it is nothing, nothing in the world-”

Philostrate

“I say I love thee more than he can do.”

Demetrius

“The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.”

Theseus

“Captain from our fairy ______,”

band

“________ is here at ____”.

Helena, hand

“And the _____, mistook by __',”

youth, me

“_________ for a ______ fee.”

Pleading, lover's

“_____ we their fond _______ see?”

Shall, pageant

“ ____ what fools these _______ be!”

Lord, mortals