H.G. Wells Quotes

When mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.

تلك الحجرة المظلمة،والهواء العليل والسماء الرائعة،وهاهي حسنائي بذراعيها البضين،وثوبها الأنيق..وكيف جلسنا وتحادثنا بكلام أقرب إلى الهمس..وكنا نتكلم همسا،ليس لأن هناك من يسمع كلامنا،ولكن لأنه كان ثمة صف...

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONSTRATED!--I'm starving, said the voice, and the night is--chilly for a man without clothes.

The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and quantity and a means of expression,more exact,compact, and ready than ordinary language. The great...

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

All the English flowers came from Shakespeare. I don't know what we did before his time.The Secret Places of the Heart

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained

Aren't we all agreed about those things--in theory?'In theory, yes,' said Bobby. 'But not in reality. If every one really wanted to abolish the difference of rich and poor it would be as easy as pie t...

Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surrounds. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never dies, fretted by a law they could not understa...

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Fine hospitality, said I, to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you.

He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating.

He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neit...

He sighed and looked about him. 'This is no world for men,' he said. 'And yet in a way...it appeals.

Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions.

I felt amazingly confident,—it’s not particularly pleasant recalling that I was an ass.

I had never realised it before, but the nose is to the mind of a dog what the eye is to the mind of a seeing man. Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision. This