It's not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,' said Simmons. 'Everyone knows you don't fight like a gentleman.' 'That might be called an oxymoron,' Ramses said. 'Oh--sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.' The poor devil didn't know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!