The Day of the Triffids

'You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there.'

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

She rummaged in a battered bag beside her, brought out a dirty spoon, and began to taste the beans as if they were one of the jams of paradise.

'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.'

'We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.'

'You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to.'