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Quotes from Greybeard — Brian Aldiss

1925–2017 England

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The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

Greybeard (1964)

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Greybeard (1964)

Let’s have a toast—to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Greybeard (1964)

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now.

Greybeard (1964)

I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

Greybeard (1964)

As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, “Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.”

Greybeard (1964)

One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.

Greybeard (1964)

“Are you a religious man, Joe?”
Flitch pulled a face. “I leaves that sort of thing to women.”

Greybeard (1964)

All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.

Greybeard (1964)

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

Greybeard (1964)

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.

Greybeard (1964)

It’s a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn’t; it’s something that goes on inside us.

Greybeard (1964)

That’s one thing about these religious boys—they reckon that if they are on God’s side, then the enemy must be on the devil’s, and so they have no qualms about giving it to ’em hot and strong.

Greybeard (1964)

All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all....Ah, well, that’s not a fruitful thing to wish, is it?

Greybeard (1964)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Aldiss (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.