“[...] even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances, it secures its positions step by step, with… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Already he knew something of the history of the intervening years. He had heard now of the moral decay that had followed… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“So by the beginning of the third century B.C. we find already arisen in the Western civilization of the old world three… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I can best express my state of mind by saying that I wanted to be in at the death.” — 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 fire, her pale eyes wide open. 'Ay,' she broke in; 'and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's a many things to see, when one's still but… — H.G. Wells Copy Share
“That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence: I become absent-minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying… — H.G. Wells Copy Share
“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, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians . . . were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space if fifty years. Are we such apostles… — H.G. Wells Copy Share
“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 - what is it? That some day the Over-man may come, that some day the inferior, the weak and the bestial may be subdued or eliminated. Subdued if not eliminated. The world is no place for the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share
“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
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