War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.

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.