106 quotes
"Other things than to fight, there is, even for dragons."
Jizzle (1954)
Keeping to an unnecessary programme requires resolution.
The Seeds of Time (1956)
"We shan't get homo superior without any birth-pangs."
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
"I suppose one could scarcely have had innocence and experience. Being young is very exhausting and unsatisfactory, really—although it looks so nice."
Jizzle (1954)
"Most births are painful, and none are pretty."
The Outward Urge (1961)
"Life isn't very long. You see that plainly when you begin to look at it from the other end. Not time to do very much."
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
You can half-expect things. Try to face them in advance, case-harden your mind, you think - but when they come, it's always different.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
"We have been but little molested, for we have not the things which most men value."
Sleepers of Mars (1973)
"Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there."
The Secret People (1935)
"Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?"
The Kraken Wakes (aka 'Out of the Deeps') (1953)
"It was curious that, in facing the man, I felt none of the distaste one has for an abnormality."
Sleepers of Mars (1973)
I suppose we all have a number of carefully furnished, non-communicating rooms in our minds.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
"The creatures fling the most dangerous frequencies around, not only without effort but regardless of consequences."
The Best of John Wyndham 1951-1960 (1973)
'We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.'
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
"There's a type of woman who isn't content until she's made herself some man's slave and doormat—put herself completely in his power."
The Chrysalids (aka 'Re-Birth') (1955)
'There's a whole lot of people don't seem to understand that you have to talk to a man in his own language before he'll take you seriously.'
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while being indistinguishable.
Wanderers of Time (1973)
It is what has happened, and is happening now, that determines the future. Therefore, there must be a great number of possible futures, each a possible consequence of what is being done now.
Consider Her Ways (and others) (1961)
"We ourselves have a tradition of taking beatings, and then winning wars," said Bocker.
The Kraken Wakes (aka 'Out of the Deeps') (1953)
Unfortunately there were certain persons with elastic principles.
The Chrysalids (aka 'Re-Birth') (1955)