In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
[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
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought… — H. G. Wells Copy Share