106 quotes
I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.
Chocky (1968)
"Doubtless the first arrow did not kill a lion."
Wanderers of Time (1973)
Hobbies are convenient in the child, but irritant in the adult; which is why women are careful never to have them, but simply to be interested in this and that.
Jizzle (1954)
On the principle that if you walk briskly with an air of purpose ninety-nine per cent of the people you meet will assume it is a proper purpose, I did just that.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
'If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. . . .'
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
I had only my thoughts to occupy me, and they were not good company.
Consider Her Ways (and others) (1961)
"One hears of the Industrial Revolution as though it were a mere phase, finished and done with. It is not, and it shows no sign of ever being completed."
Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)
'In spite of what they say, two can't live as cheap as one. And wives hanker after certain standards, and ought to have them - within reason, of course.'
The Seeds of Time (1956)
I have been astonished before, and doubtless shall be again, how the kindliest and most sympathetic of women can pettify and downgrade the searing anguishes of childhood.
Chocky (1968)
But we had learnt, as had many before us, about the bread-alone factor, one needed more than adequate food.
The Kraken Wakes (aka 'Out of the Deeps') (1953)
The vitriol throwers and smilers with knives
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
Poor baby, what a world to come into.
Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)
'Cruelty is as old as life itself.'
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
"The English," [Vinski] remarked at length, "have a saying that possession is nine points of the law. It is just the kind of sentiment one would expect to find in a capitalist country."
Sleepers of Mars (1973)
"But if they change me shape, and change me voice, and change me hair and change me face, as they say, what is it that is me, at all?" asked Peggy.
Consider Her Ways (and others) (1961)
One man's trash is another's souvenir.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
Everybody ought to be able to swim.
Chocky (1968)
"Was she a bit mad?"
"Mad? Oh, no - unless you would call a failure to grow up a kind of madness - in which case there would be very few sane people."
Plan for Chaos (2009)
Practically everyone there had had an air of brooding privately with differing intensity. I knew now what it had reminded me of - the outpatients department of a hospital.
Plan for Chaos (2009)
"Life in all its forms is strife; the better matched the opponents, the harder the struggle. The most powerful of all weapons is intelligence; any intelligent form dominates by, and therefore survives by, its intelligence."
The Kraken Wakes (aka 'Out of the Deeps') (1953)