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
I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body… — 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
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