Murray Leinster Quotes

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

The whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

Hoddan swore from the depths of a very considerable vocabulary. "You (censored) - (deleted) - (omitted) - (unprintability)", he roared.

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

every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss. Time

Nothing," snapped Howell, "that a man can imagine is impossible!

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!