“We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death. But did he see like that?” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death.” — 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
![“The thing [Henry James'] novel is about is always there. It is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.” quote by H.G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19f/h-g-wells-2-1299_books_the-thing-henry-james-novel-is-about-is_138893.jpg)
