# Murray Leinster

- Quotes: 33
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster

## Books

- [The Pirates of Zan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-pirates-of-zan.md) — 24 quotes
- [The Wailing Asteroid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-wailing-asteroid.md) — 6 quotes
- [War with the Gizmos](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/war-with-the-gizmos.md) — 3 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> 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.

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

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

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

> 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.

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

> 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.

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

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

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

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

> 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.