Jack Vance Quotes
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A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: 'How could one so beautiful be so base?'
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The purportedly free was seldom as represented.
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Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!
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Ildefonse said ponderously: 'If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare.'
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Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.
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They call me a renegade.The epithet is inaccurate and undeserved. I cannot be faithless to a cause which I never have endorsed. Indeed, I am absolutely faithful to the only cause I espouse, which is my own welfare. I take pride in this unswerving loyalty!
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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'Sir Tristano spoke: 'Stop! You are taking the great green pearl!''Naturally!' said the voice from a point close behind. 'That is the whole point of robbery: to acquire the victim’s valuables!'
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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I suppose if you isolate yourself to such an extent, you more or less must expect a series of emergencies.
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
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You are a particularly clever girl: almost as clever as you are appealing to the eye.
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He must approach the subject critically, alert for contradictions, pedantry and vagueness.
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He adjudicated the case in a manner I still find perplexing, but which must have been equitable, since it pleased no one.
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
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I fear, Master Zamp, that you are a victim to your own perfervid imagination.
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Nothing is more conspicuous than a farting princess.
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'At Gundar we conceive 'innocence' as a positive quality, not merely an insipid absence of guilt,' stated the Nolde. 'We are not the fools that certain untidy ruffians might suppose.'
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His brain ached with the want of knowing.
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'We are supposed to set you a good example,' said Devonet. 'As a start, I will point out that a lady of refinement would not wish to be found so high in a tree.''Then I am a lady of refinement well and truly,' said Madouc, 'since I did not wish to be found.'
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The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?