THE BEAST in Classic Quotes

1  I don't believe in the beast of course.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

2  We've seen the beast with our own eyes.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

3  First, you know now, we've seen the beast.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

4  --and then, the beast might try to come in.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

5  So they had shifted camp then, away from the beast.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

6  Only the beast lay still, a few yards from the sea.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

7  They forgot the beast in the excitement of exploration.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

8  Desperately, Ralph prayed that the beast would prefer littluns.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

9  The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

10  Ralph thinks you're cowards, running away from the boar and the beast.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

11  You can't have an ordinary hunt because the beast doesn't leave tracks.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

12  I gave you food," said Jack, "and my hunters will protect you from the beast.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

13  This is more than a hunter's job," said Ralph at last, "because you can't track the beast.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

14  He offered no opinion on the beast nor told Ralph why he had chosen to come on this mad expedition.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

15  At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

16  However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

17  If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees