It spread up the sides of the pit by the third or fourth…

“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility”

— H.G. Wells

“The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature. In the end, wisely…

— H.G. Wells

“In the early evening time Dr. Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. It was a pleasant…

— H.G. Wells

“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.”

— H.G. Wells

“So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from…

— H.G. Wells

“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind -…

— H.G. Wells

“Because this island is full of inimical phenomena.”

— H.G. Wells

“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards…

— H.G. Wells

“We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as vanished bison and the dodo,…

— H.G. Wells

“Don't follow you,' said Filby.”

— H.G. Wells

“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with…

— H.G. Wells

“What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.”

— H.G. Wells

“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if…

— H.G. Wells

“Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.' The old woman sat staring hard into the…

— H.G. Wells

“For three centuries the life of the Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle of a…

— H.G. Wells