Murray Leinster

Quotes

1. There was a beautiful row. You’ve really scared people, Hoddan! You deserve well of the republic! Every government and every person needs to be thoroughly terrified occasionally. It limbers up the brain.

2. 

   He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.

3. 

   The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.

4. 

   Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.

5. 

   Again time passed. In one of the remoter galaxies a supernova flamed, and on a rocky, barren world a small living thing squirmed experimentally—and to mankind the one event was just as important as the other.

6. 

   Twilight remained, a fairy half-light in which all things looked much more charming than they really were.

7. 

   There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.

8. 

   But it might not be true enough. It might be less than...well...sufficiently true in a particular instance.

9. 

   This was the second time in his life he’d been on a horse. It was two too many.

10. 

    It is the custom of all men, everywhere, to be obtuse where women are concerned.

11. 

    He signed himself prince of this, lord of that, baron of the other thing and claimant to the dukedom of something else.

12. 

    A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.