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H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 12

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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Sea, Imagination, Submarines

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing, I see everincreasing possibilities before life, and I see no limits set to it all. Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend them, swim in expectation.

Expectations, Limits, Dawn

"Mr. Belloc Objects to "The Outline of History"".

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

Photography, Thinking, Woe

H. G. Wells (2016). “Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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.

Perfect, Movement, Size

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. Wells The Dover Reader”, p.41, Courier Dover Publications

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

War, Fleeing, Madness

"The Door in the Wall".

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

Daughter, Morning, Quiet People

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Education, Learning, Study

"The History of Mr. Polly".

Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.

Mean, Men, Self

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.6600, e-artnow

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

Hunting, Sphere Of Influence, Spheres

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12554, Delphi Classics

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

Ignorance, Catholic, Church

H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.155, Book Tree

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

Food, Offering, Biscuits

H. G. Wells (2016). “Tono-Bungay”, p.250, H. G. Wells

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

Hurt, Men, Littles

H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

Fog, Gathering, Valleys

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.66, H. G. Wells

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

Pain, Useless Things, Evolution

H. G. Wells (2012). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.55, Courier Corporation

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

Thinking, Two, Doubt

Only people who are well off can be - complex.

People, Wells, Complexes

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1116, Delphi Classics

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

Caves, Disease, Ruins

"The Fate of Man". Book by H. G. Wells. Chapter 26, gutenberg.net.au. 1939.

Now the most comprehensive conception of this new world is of one politically, socially and economically united To this end a small but increasing body of people in the world set their faces and seek to direct their lives.

People, World, Body

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Lying, Men, Savages

'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

Biographies, Made, Should

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16701, Delphi Classics

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

War, Hero, Fighting

H. G. Wells (2015). “The World Set Free: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.62, 谷月社

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 though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

Animal, Men, Clouds

"Fictional chracter: Edward Douglas". "The Island of Dr. Moreau ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Reason, Said, Traveller

H.G. Wells (2014). “The Time Machine”, p.11, Diderot Publishing

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