94 Quotes by John Wyndham

It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

They made a mess of 1914. They came a cropper in 1940. And now they're working up for it again.

 “Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.”“Exactly,” she agreed.

novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing.

You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham

But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

In loyalty to their kind they cannot tolerate our rise; in loyalty to our kind, we cannot tolerate their obstruction.They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled — they havenowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.