# Quote — John Brunner, Quicksand

> He regarded himself as inhabiting a jungle in which behind masks of civilised behavior and conventional politeness everybody, doctor or not, was out for what he could get. No means of enhancing his reputation, status and income escaped him.

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Book: [Quicksand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand.md)
- Page: 53
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#Quicksand_(1967)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/he-regarded-himself

## More from this book

> —Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it!

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/blessed-are-they.md)

> —If I ever get good at hospital politics, I think I shall start to hate myself.

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/if-i-ever.md)

> A cripple can still be a person, but in what sense is a lunatic human? Humanity’s in the mind, in the tangle of thoughts spun by the brain, and once that’s gone what remains is human only in outward shape.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/a-cripple-can.md)