# Quote — John Wyndham, The Secret People

> Fate is not above using inconsiderable details for her obscure purpose.

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Book: [The Secret People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-secret-people.md)
- Page: 8
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wyndham#The_Secret_People_(1935)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-secret-people/fate-is-not

## More from this book

> "There's nothing more egocentric than a cat."

p. 26 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-secret-people/theres-nothing-more.md)

> Safe passage along the catwalk of one's own racial code must be achieved through long experience; it is harder still to climb from it to another, and when that other is as involved as a maze and is entirely supported by incomprehensible misconceptions, a foot is bound to slip through the fabric from time to time.

p. 130 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-secret-people/safe-passage-along.md)

> "It's better to have a pistol you don't want, than to want a pistol you've not got."

p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-secret-people/its-better-to-have.md)