Gordon R. Dickson quotes:

Sir Brian told him in fulsome scatological terms what he could do with his lineage.

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.