H.G. Wells

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those.…

— H.G. Wells

“The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the…

— H.G. Wells

“they had a tradition of greater solidarity. Greek was hostile to Greek; Jew stood by Jew. Wherever a Jew went, he found…

— H.G. Wells

“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

“Advertising is legitimised lying.”

— H.G. Wells

“The real method of popular expression in Italy in those days was not the comitia tributa, but the strike and insurrection, the…

— H.G. Wells

“Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I…

— H.G. Wells

“man so soon as his first virile activity declined. Over most of the great wildernesses of earth you would have sought him…

— H.G. Wells

“Why not?' said the Time Traveller.”

— H.G. Wells

“I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.”

— H.G. Wells

“Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.”

— H.G. Wells

“In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at…

— H.G. Wells

“And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people,…

— H.G. Wells

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely…

— H.G. Wells

“he was one of those saturnine people who smile with the corners of the mouth down”

— H.G. Wells

“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who…

— H.G. Wells

“Was there, after all, ever any green door in the wall at all?”

— H.G. Wells

“but I know it was a dull white, and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its…

— H.G. Wells

“He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, his still more wretched school-days,…

— H.G. Wells

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire…

— H.G. Wells

“What is your theologian's ecstasy but Mahomet's houri in the dark?”

— H.G. Wells

“Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's…

— H.G. Wells

“He was dressed in dark-blue serge, and had peculiarly thick, coarse, black hair. I”

— H.G. Wells

“We have already described the gatherings of the popular comitia; but that clumsy assembly in sheep pens does not convey the full…

— H.G. Wells

“(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls…

— H.G. Wells