Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Murray Leinster

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Murray Leinster.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie scripts, and hundreds of radio scripts and television plays.

American - Writer | June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975

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No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

Murray Leinster

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

Murray Leinster

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

Murray Leinster

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Murray Leinster

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

Murray Leinster

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

Murray Leinster

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

Murray Leinster

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Murray Leinster

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Murray Leinster

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Murray Leinster

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Murray Leinster