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
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
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,… — 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.... Nature never appeals… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery… — 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
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