# The Wanderers of Time

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time

## Quotes

> It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of the police.

p. 83 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/it-is-a-funny.md)

> She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while being indistinguishable.

p. 99 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/she-showed-all.md)

> "There's plenty o' chaps full of book learnin' an' unemployed with it."

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/theres-plenty-o-chaps.md)

> "The fact that we don't know how to do it doesn't prove its impossibility."

p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/the-fact-that.md)

> "Doubtless the first arrow did not kill a lion."

p. 158 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/doubtless-the-first.md)

> It takes civilised people quite a while to appreciate 'the big lie' technique.

p. 87 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/it-takes-civilised.md)

> "What is the use of life?"

p. 41 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/what-is-the.md)

> "A man's the same as the rest of us or 'e's a freak. Stands to reason."

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/a-mans-the.md)

> "To take an illustration—a bad one, I admit, but enough for our purpose—one may consider time as a river. You may turn boats adrift on it at many points, and they will all collect together at the same serious obstacle, whether they have travelled a hundred miles or two miles."

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/the-wanderers-of-time/to-take-an-illustration-a.md)