“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Herbert George Wells, better known as H. G. Wells, was an English writer best known for such science fiction novels as The… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying vestiges of books. They… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“When afterwards I tried to tell my aunt, she punished me again for my wicked persistence. Then, as I said, everyone was… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A large number of houses deserve to be burnt, most modern furniture, an overwhelming majority of pictures and books - one might… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
