30 Quotes by H. Beam Piper

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

It was a bland, tranquilized, life-adjusted, group-integrated sort of face -- the face turned out in thousands of copies every year by the educational production lines on Terra.

Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

Does the Convocation make the laws?" Erskyll asked.Hozhet was perplexed. "Make laws, Lord Proconsul? Oh, no. We have laws."There were planets, here and there through the Empire, where an attitude like that would have been distinctly beneficial; planets with elective parliaments, every member of which felt himself obligated to get as many laws enacted during his term of office as possible.

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous."Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance. If their ballots aren't secured by arms, they're worthless.

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.