30 quotes
Just because you know a thing is true in theory, doesn't make it true in fact.
Deathworld (1960)
For the first time in my life I find myself with more than one answer to the same question.
Deathworld (1960)
They stared at each other, man and alien, or more correctly alien and alien—for this is what they were to each other. Alien meaning different, alien meaning unknown.
Plague from Space (1965)
There is no such thing as fair fighting when you are struggling for your life.
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
The crossbows twanged like harps of death.
Deathworld (1960)
Who but a madman can enjoy the prospect of approaching war?
The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
Morning sickness and robbery just don’t seem to mix.
The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
False modesty is the refuge of the incompetent.
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
Insinuate, penetrate, operate and extirpate.
The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
Their personal policy has become their planetary policy—and that’s never a very smart thing.
Planet of the Damned (1962)
Any boob can crash a party, in fact usually does, since that is all one seems to meet at this kind of affair.
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
Cold-blooded killing is just not my thing. I've killed in self-defense, I'll not deny that, but I still maintain an exaggerated respect for life in all forms.
The Stainless Steel Rat’s Revenge (1970)
The better you are as a soldier, the worse you are as a human being.
Without being too clinical, let’s say his brain was affected.
Plague from Space (1965)
Like all women, she was a true pragmatist.
The Stainless Steel Rat Saves the World (1972)
Is the very essence of what science fiction is all about.
My dive into the depths of self-analysis had left a definitely unwholesome taste in my mouth that no amount of liquor could wash away.
The Stainless Steel Rat (1961)
We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society.
A Stainless Steel Rat is Born (1985)
You must realize that living organisms will do anything to survive. Castaways at sea will drink their own urine in their need for water. Disgust at this is only the attitude of the overprotected who have never experienced extreme thirst or hunger.
Planet of the Damned (1962)
What finally decided me was what happened in that village in Tibet; we had airdropped in during the night to get between the Indians and the Chinese. I had never seen poverty or disease like that and I wondered why guns were the only thing we could bring them.
Plague from Space (1965)