H.G. Wells Quotes

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

For the strength of a man and the softness of a woman, the institution of the family, and the differentiation of occupations are mere militant necessities of an age of physical force; where population...

You have saved my life. Chance, he answered. Just chance. I prefer to make my thanks to the accessible agent. Thank no one. You had the need, and I had the knowledge; and I injected and fed you much a...

¡Este estúpido mundo! -dijo-. ¡Qué complicado es todo! No he vivido hasta ahora. Me pregunto cuándo empezaré. Dieciséis años tiranizado por niñeras y maestros de escuela, sometido a su santa voluntad;...

Fact takes no heed of human hopes.

A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, save for the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interp...

All passion is madness.

But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as thoug...

Can an instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?' Filby became pensive. 'Clearly,' the Time Traveller procee...