Space Captain Smith Quotes

“People get the wrong idea. I blame science-fiction writers, personally. It annoys me how they confuse the whole robot issue. I tell you, if I met that Asimov bloke, I’d harm him, or at least through inaction allow him to come to harm.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“We do not make mistakes. Surrender at once! Resistance is fertile!"
"Don't you mean futile?"
"...That's what I said! Surrender or die!”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“Remember you’re all representing your country, and you ought to behave as the Empire does.’ ‘So we can kill and loot at will, steal their goods and claim the planet as our own?’ Suruk said.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“You’ll slip up, just like everyone else who tries to mess with the British Empire. They all get it wrong somehow – forget some detail, make some tiny error, invade Russia – and then it’s all downhill from there.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“...weak of spine and flaccid of upper lip.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“Moons have passed since last we met, battles fought and enemies fallen. At the bridge of Anrag I took fifteen heads. I overthrew the tyrant Dagrud War-Scythe and took his cattle as tribute to my skill. It was a glorious day.’ ‘Sounds pretty wild. I’m having a new patio put down. You and me both, eh?’ ‘Square slabs or crazy paving?’ ‘Square slabs.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“By the way, you haven’t seen an alien around here, have you? About six foot eight with a face like a cross between a boar and an upturned crab. Probably carrying a spear and a bag full of severed heads.’ Parker shrugged. ‘I dunno. It gets busy here.’ ‘He’s got quite an unusual laugh.’ ‘Oh, that bloke? He’s down the bottom of the ramp. You know him, then?”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“Many colours of skin are there, many different shades of face. But if you look within, deep inside a person, human beings are all alike. Red and squelchy.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“Humans are stupid,’ he declared, pulling it out. ‘Petty prejudice does not interest my people. A wise warrior once told me: “Respect your brother M’Lak, no matter what shade of greenish-grey he may be.”’ ‘Those are beautiful words, Suruk,’ Rhianna said. ‘–“Then, while various races of stupid human are fighting one another, you can steal their goods. And cut off their ridiculous little heads. And laugh. In their blood.”’ ‘Those words are also’ – she groped for the right word – ‘honest.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith

“Pilots are like that,’ Smith was saying. ‘A lot of them think of their ships as belonging to them.’
‘A lot of people think of their heads as belonging to them.”
― Toby Frost, Space Captain Smith