106 quotes
"We have had a glorious past—but a glorious past is bitterness for a child with a hopeless future."
Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)
"There is many a flower which would not be growing if the dung had not happened to fall where it did."
The Outward Urge (1961)
"The frustrations are still buzzing about, and soon they are going to find a new place to swarm."
The Outward Urge (1961)
"But it is the old story of new generations refusing to be bound by the promises of their forefathers."
Sleepers of Mars (1973)
"The thing is to play your own game - not let the other feller force you to what he wants."
Plan for Chaos (2009)
'You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there.'
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
To sleep in peace, and resume a nightmare when one wakes, is a highly undesirable reversal of the natural order.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
"It's better to have a pistol you don't want, than to want a pistol you've not got."
The Secret People (1935)
Pretty girls are lovely as the flowers in May, but there are so many flowers in May.
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
'The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.'
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
One got tired, and not infrequently a little stupid, by the end of a shift.
The Outward Urge (1961)
There is a degree of odds against which a gambler becomes just another mug.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
"The fact that we don't know how to do it doesn't prove its impossibility."
Wanderers of Time (1973)
It's all pretty simple if you don't give a damn who gets hurt in the rush.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
Fate is not above using inconsiderable details for her obscure purpose.
The Secret People (1935)
"A man's the same as the rest of us or 'e's a freak. Stands to reason."
Wanderers of Time (1973)
"There's plenty o' chaps full of book learnin' an' unemployed with it."
Wanderers of Time (1973)
You owe it to your self-respect to spend a lot of money on yourself.
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
"Dying," observed the doctor, "is such a very ordinary thing to do."
Plan for Chaos (2009)
'And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?'
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)