The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — 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
Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a… — 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
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