William Golding Quotes
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Referring to apathetic Canadian voters: Canada's first female Prime Minister
Referring to John Foster Dulles:
Chavez frequently insulted officials and leaders of other countries. See linked quotes for examples.
The Congressman was not even chastised by the House of Representatives.
Sir William Gerald Golding, CBE FRSL was a Cornish novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), he would go on to publish another twelve volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983.
