H.G. Wells Quotes

I am just a human being — solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too — But I’m invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! . . .

I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round hi...

Very well, said the Voice, in a tone of relief. Then I'm going to throw flints at you till you think differently.

This sense of insecurity was falling about the entire planet and though people went on doing the things they usually did, they had none of the assurance, the happy-go-lucky all-right feeling, that had...

The queer thing is that we do trust you, said Bodisham. In spite of your -- extremism.You'd better, said Rud with grim conviction. I'm right. What is extremism? The whole truth and nothing but the tru...

For that moment I touched an emotion beyond the common range of men, yet one the poor brutes we dominate know only too well. I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow, and suddenly confron...

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature...

They ought not to have let things come to this, he said, but he was never very clear even to himself who or why They were nor what This was. Some person or persons unknown was to blame. He hated these...

[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.

فأنا لا أفهم لماذا لا نستطيع الاستمتاع بمثل هذه المتع البسيطة عندما نكبر؟ولماذا يتضمن نضوجنا نسيان الكثير من الأمور.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the painin the world had found a voice

Common sense and every material reality insisted upon the unification of human life throughout the planet and the socialisation of its elementary needs, and pitted against that was the fact that every...

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

For neither do men live nor die in vain. Here

It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.

The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a l...

That Anarchist world, I admit, is our dream; we do believe - well, I, at any rate, believe this present world, this planet, will some day bear a race beyond our most exalted and temerarious dreams, a...