H. G. Wells

Quotes

• “Everywhere war and monstrous economic exploitation are intensified, so that those very same increments of power and oppo...”
• “In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-ho...”
• “There has been ... an enormous waste of human mental and physical resources in premature revolutionary thrusts, ill-plan...”
• “And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought...”
• “...there has accumulated a vast tangle of emergency legislation, regulations, barriers and restraints, out of all propor...”
• “Oswald Cabal: Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for Man, no rest and ...”
• “This silly ass of a world," he said; "what a muddle it all is! I haven't had any life. I wonder when it's going to begin...”
• “Someone brought a sheet from the Jolly Cricketers; and having covered him, they carried him into that house. And there i...”
• “And now," said he, standing up after a long gap of silence, during which we had each pursued our own thoughts, "what do ...”
• “By Heaven, Kemp, you don't know what rage is! To have worked for years, to have planned and plotted, and then to get som...”
• “Mr. Wells is not shrinking back to a mossy political liberalism; he is expressing the clear-eyed conclusions of one abre...”
• “They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us...”
• “You see, I went on with this research just the way it led me. That is the only way I ever heard of true research going. ...”
• “I do not deny that force has to be used, but I think the forms of the struggle should fit as closely as possible to the ...”
• “Wells' faith in knowledge and reason, in brief, excluded too large, too central a portion of human experience. He was fo...”
• “That, I believe, was the very first time that the words Tono-Bungay ever heard on earth-unless my uncle indulged in mono...”
• “I have no hestitation whatever in saying that Wells, as he is, entertains me far more agreeably than Dickens. I know ver...”
• “It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Mode...”
• “Whatever America has to show in heroic living to-day, I doubt if she can show any thing finer than the quality of the re...”
• “To me it is quite credible that the Martians may be descended from beings not unlike ourselves, by a gradual development...”
• “Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... u...”
• “H.G. Wells, a great artist, was my favourite writer when I was a boy. The Passionate Friends, Ann Veronica, The Time Mac...”
• “These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that, to the study of the plasticity of...”
• “[The invisible man said: ]"After a time I crawled home, took some food and a strong dose of strychnine, and went to slee...”
• “Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of tha...”
• “There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering ...”
• “On the supposition that the world is to go on divided among aggressive sovereign states, with phases of war preparation ...”
• “And this Thing I saw! How can I describe it? A monstrous tripod, higher than many houses, striding over the young pine t...”
• “Certain matters, however, in which old instinct was at war with Moreau's convenience, were in a less stable condition. A...”
• “H. G." in his lifetime inspired countless thousands of the eager self-immolatory young with the faith that freedom-with-...”
• “The only political organisation Wells seems to have worked with successfully was PEN, for which he was International Pre...”
• “The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse...”
• “Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. It is the peculiar snare of the perplexed orthodox, and soon Mr. Brumley was ...”
• “Both have spoken and written a great deal in the last thirty-odd years; neither possesses what one could call a style, t...”
• “Most striking, perhaps, in their general appearance was the disproportion between the legs of these creatures and the le...”
• “Oswald Cabal: Little animals. And if we're no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live...”
• “Practically I thought I had impunity to do whatever I chose, everything-save to give away my secret. So I thought. Whate...”
• “My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a cit...”
• “Since the beginning of this war two men, whom we had thought of as slowly and unwillingly retiring from public life, hav...”
• “The age of 'expansion,' the age of European "empires" is near its end. No one who can read the signs of the times in Jap...”
• “I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely bego...”
• “The man's become inhuman, I tell you," said Kemp. "I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror-so soon as he has go...”
• “Every man shall be entitled to a sound and objective education and there shall be genuine equality of opportunity. Educa...”
• “The influence of H. G. Wells on other science fiction writers is immeasurable. His work is widely known far beyond the b...”
• “Introduction to the Declaration of the Rights of Man", in The Common Sense of War and Peace : World Revolution or War Un...”
• “The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In the...”
• “The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraord...”
• “A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of t...”
• “In 1933, Einstein's works were among those burned in the book bonfires organized by the Nazis throughout Germany, togeth...”
• “I remember I felt an extraordinary persuasion that I was being played with, that presently, when I was upon the very ver...”