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Wells Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is…
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who…
- Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
- A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted…
- He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four…
- ...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in…
- So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud…
- The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
- This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he…
- There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
- If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.
- [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see…
- An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be…
- It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.
- The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.
- Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
- In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill; whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter…
- Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either…
- There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
- As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood.…
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