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Wells Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow…
- But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
- I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as…
- Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
- To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a…
- The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity…
- And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
- You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what…
- Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
- A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared…
- Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his…
- The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's…
- Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
- Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the…
- Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.
- I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume…
- Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being…
- One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent…
- Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the…
More Wells Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong