H.G.Wells Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by H.G.Wells
H.G.Wells Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion
To discover a society,' said I, 'erected on a strictly communistic basis.'
'Of all the wild extravagant theories!' began the Psychologist.
'Of all the wild extravagant theories!' began the Psychologist.
This is day one of year one of the new epoch,
the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First.
the Epoch of the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
The power of destruction which had once been the ultimate privilege of government was now the only power left in the world
and it was everywhere.
and it was everywhere.
With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
... growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination
You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.
I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.
There is only one sort of man who is absolutely to blame for his own misery, and that is the man who finds life dull and dreary.
Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
There's something in this starlight that loosens one's tongue. I'm an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you.
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
One of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.
I went to a box room at the top of the house and locked myself in, in order to be alone with my aching miseries.
Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.
And through it all, this destiny was before me," he said; "this vast inheritance of which I did not dream.
She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.
The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
But, as I say, I was too
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never
known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.