The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — 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
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought… — 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