“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“How often things must have been seen and dismissed as unimportant, before the speculative eye and the moment of vision came! It… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And through it all, this destiny was before me," he said; "this vast inheritance of which I did not dream.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in the world, as… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe - well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“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
“I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.” — 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
