It took two years to make,' retorted the Time Traveller
If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.
I was a battleground of fear and curiosity.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Very well, said the Voice, in a tone of relief. Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently.
Time is only a kind of Space.
The stranger did not go to church, and indeed made no difference between Sunday and the irreligious days, even in costume. He worked, as Mrs. Hall thought, very fitfully. Some days he would come down...
Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
I am just a human being — solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too — But I’m invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible.
For after the Battle comes quiet.
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)
A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stinkhorn, are equa...
There's truths you have to grow into.
The essence of the Revolution is to abolish the attainment of unqualified power of man over man either by vote-getting, money-pressure or crude terror. The Revolution repudiates profit or terror altog...
So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.
Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! . . .
[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.
This is a mood, however, that comes to me now, I thank God, more rarely. I have withdrawn myself from the confusion of cities and multitudes, and spend my days surrounded by wise books,—bright windows...
There’s some ex-traordinary things in books, said the mariner.