H.G. Wells Quotes

He went into those little gardens beneath the over-hanging, brightly-lit masses of the Savoy Hotel and the Hotel Cecil. He sat down on a seat and became aware of the talk of the two people next to him...

I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The

I hope, or I could not live.

I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.

In the night, he must have eaten and slept; for in the morning he was himself again, active, powerful, angry, and malignant, prepared for his last great struggle against the world.

Let’s be sure we’d be acting perfectly right in bustin’ that there door open. A door onbust is always open to bustin’, but ye can’t onbust a door once you’ve busted en.

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fict...

One may as well starve one's body out of a place as to starve one's soul in one.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from the first moment to the last.

So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. We will peck them to death tomorrow, m...

Sometimes I doubt if the game is worth the candle. (...) But I know if I abandoned my ambition—hardly as she uses me—I should have nothing but remorse left for the rest of my days.

Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another and against these moon people. It...

Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.

That is the germ of my great discovery. But you are wrong to say that we cannot move about in Time. For instance, if I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence:...

That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fea...

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

The sky was no longer blue. North-eastward it was inky black, and out of the blackness shone brightly and steadily the pale white stars. Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastw...

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.