"This isn't a nice cosy world for anyone—especially not for anyone that's different," he said."

John Wyndham Literature See all quotes by John Wyndham →

React to this quote

More by John Wyndham

“I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.”

“'The wise lamb does not enrage the lion,' he said. 'It placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.'”

“'We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.'”

“'In spite of what they say, two can't live as cheap as one. And wives hanker after certain standards, and ought to have them - within reason, of course.'”

“It takes civilised people quite a while to appreciate 'the big lie' technique.”

“Darling, you're talking as if all normal-length lives were planned. They aren't, you know. People have to learn how to live them—and by the time they find out, they're nearly gone. No time to remedy mistakes.”

Resonant Thoughts

"There is no occasion to trample upon the meanest reptile, nor to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence and baseness are equally unmanly."

— James Burgh

Politics1714–1775

#friendship

"Darwin theorized that mankind evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexu…"

— Ray Comfort

Politics1949

#friendship

"Hey, this is a joke that I wrote a long time ago. I actually, I really really, wrote this joke. So I'm walking down the street, right? And I saw this prostitute, right? And I said, 'How much?' She sai…"

— Chris Rock

Entertainment1965

#friendship

"Christmas turns things last end foremost. The people whom the world arranges last in its procession — the weary, the poor, the foolish, the lame, the halt, the blind — these are the ones who come at t…"

— Halford E. Luccock

Politics1885–1960

#family