Fritz Leiber Quotes
1910–1992 United States
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction.
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Also known as: Leiber, Fritz
123 quotes
Women have power over men almost as great as gods do.
To Space-Age man, every mystery is a greed-magnet.
Too much good luck was always dangerous.
They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.
What is superstition, but misguided, unobjective science?
Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.
Know it or not, man treads between abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.
He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.
Unlike men, rubies and emeralds do not rest quietly in their graves.
That is as far from the truth as I am from the Secret of the Sphinx.
Let never the gems of business be mixed with the jewels of pleasure.
I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!
Bored and insecure men will loose arrows at dust motes.
Aye, there’s the bitter core of all freedom: no pay!
That’s what everybody’s been looking for since the Year One—something a little more than sex.
There are vampires and vampires, and the ones that suck blood aren’t the worst.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fritz Leiber (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.