“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
“So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“For three centuries the life of the Hebrews was like the life of a man who insists upon living in the middle… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“One seems to start in life," he said, "expecting something. And it doesn't happen. And it doesn't matter. One starts with ideas… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I say I became habituated to the Beast People, that a thousand things which had seemed unnatural and repulsive speedly became natural… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He suffered from indigestion now nearly every afternoon in his life, but as he lacked introspection he projected the associated discomfort upon… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He wanted—what did he want most in life? I think his distinctive craving is best expressed as fun—fun in companionship.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I've never really planned my life or set out to live. I happened; things happened to me. It's so with everyone.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It is curious to note how slowly the mechanism of the intellectual life improves. Contrast the ordinary library facilities of a middle-class… — 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
“Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimulation of mankind. It is the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“This — this is the dawn of a new day in human living. At the climax of that civilisation which had its… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“For in the latter days of that passionate life that lay now so far behind him, the conception of a free and… — 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
