“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
“In the early evening time Dr. Kemp was sitting in his study in the belvedere on the hill overlooking Burdock. It was… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Clearly,' the Time Traveller proceeded, 'any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has attacked… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“For more than a thousand years this idea of the unity of Christendom, of Christendom as a sort of vast Amphictyony, whose… — 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
“You have turned your back on common men, on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence [...] I ask: who… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It was some time before I could summon resolution to go down through the trees and bushes upon the flank of the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“He, I know - for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made - thought but… — 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
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — 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
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“In relation to law I am doubtful whether, even at the present time, science has fairly begun.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Next to education there must come abundant, prompt, and truthful information of what is going on in the state, and frank and… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The accidental balance on the side of Progress was far slighter and infinitely more complex and delicate in its adjustments than the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“In a moment I was clutched by several hands, and there was no mistaking that they were trying to haul me back.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither,… — 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
