The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image