John Wyndham Quotes

It's all pretty simple if you don't give a damn who gets hurt in the rush.

the vitriol throwers and smilers with knives

Unfortunately there were certain persons with elastic principles.

The creatures fling the most dangerous frequencies around, not only without effort but regardless of consequences.

The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.

I guess——" she said, wistfully—"I guess the only thing that's wrong with children is that they grow up to be people like you.

The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.

What did I tell you?" said my neighbour excitedly. "Force of mind, that's what those people use; that's why their hands are vestigial. Pure will-power." The dwarf seemed to hear him, for he looked towards us. "I am surprised," he sneered, "that you even know of such a thing as will-power. I judged by your reflexes that you had only instincts.

Do you never work? Does nobody work?' I asked Clytassamine. 'Oh yes - if he wants to,' she said. 'But what about the unpleasant things - the things that must be done?' 'What things?' she asked, puzzled. 'Well, growing food, providing power, disposing of waste, all that kind of thing.' She looked surprised. 'Why, naturally, the machines do all that. You wouldn't expect men to do those things. Good heavens, what have we got brains for?" 'But who looks after the machines - keeps them in order?' 'Themselves, of course.

I have been astonished before, and doubtless shall be again, how the kindliest and most sympathetic of women can pettify and downgrade the searing anguishes of childhood.