Quotes from keith laumer

It's a time-honored truism of diplomacy that the most resented epithet is the one most accurately depicting the deficiencies of the recipient.

I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

Earlyworm rolled the words along the table like a fragmentation grenade.

I rode up, walked past a few miles of wallpaper that was someone's revenge for life's disappointments.

Look here, sir, what is it you really want out of life? Urb? Snorthwinger? Oplozzies? There must be some chink in your implacability!

The prisoner, impersonating a peer of the Lily and an officer of an ancient and honored Corps, had flaunted the law of Northroyal and the authority of the Emperor

When the job blows up in your face, remember Rum Jungle. We'll need every man - and then it won't be enough. = Retief in Retief