Quotes About John Wyndham

Nobody is going to be muddle-headed enough to confuse ignorance with innocence now - it's too important. Nor is ignorance going to be cute or funny anymore. It is going to be dangerous, very dangerous.

In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy

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

There were some cigarettes still in the case. I lit one, and started to get into the state of mind where, though everything was still undeniably queer, I could no longer understand why I had been quite so near panic. It

Triffids were at large...I began to loathe them now from more than their carrion-eating habits - they, more than anything else, seemed able to profit and flourish on our disaster...

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of police.