H. Beam Piper Citas

• English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

  H. Beam Piper

  Warrior, Trying, Maids

  9 Copiar cita

• Sabes, está muy bien echar una mano al desvalido, pero sólo una mano. Mantén la otra mano en tu pistola, ¡o intentará comerse la que le diste!

  H. Beam Piper

  Hands, Giving, Trying

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.22, eStar Books

  14 Copiar cita

• Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

  H. Beam Piper

  Powerful, Rich, Poor

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.

  10 Copiar cita

• And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him
  he's crazy. Ask him what he means.

  H. Beam Piper

  Crazy, Mean, Statements

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Space Viking: Science Fiction Stories”, p.46, 谷月社

  7 Copiar cita

• Sólo los incompetentes esperan hasta el último extremo para usar la fuerza, y para entonces, suele ser demasiado tarde para usar nada, ni siquiera la oración.

  H. Beam Piper

  Prayer, Waiting, Apathy

  H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books

  9 Copiar cita

• I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

  H. Beam Piper

  Dark, Night, Want

  6 Copiar cita

• English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

  H. Beam Piper

  Men, Arms, Barmaids

  8 Copiar cita

• Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

  H. Beam Piper

  Disease, Sanity, Contagious

  4 Copiar cita

• Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

  H. Beam Piper

  Motivation, Lying, Men

  H. Beam Piper (2011). “Space Viking”, p.4, The Floating Press

  5 Copiar cita

• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  H. Beam Piper

  Texas, Excess, Killing

  "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

  7 Copiar cita

• Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.

  H. Beam Piper

  Two, Alcohol, Together

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Little Fuzzy: Science Fiction Stories”, p.21, 谷月社

  5 Copiar cita

• I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

  H. Beam Piper

  Ideas, Sick, Looks

  H. Beam Piper (2015). “Four-Day Planet: Science Fiction Stories”, p.9, 谷月社

  4 Copiar cita

También te puede gustar:

Murray Leinster

Andre Norton

John Scalzi

Poul Anderson

Jerry Pournelle

Eric Frank Russell

Gordon R. Dickson

Edgar Rice Burroughs