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H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 14

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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

Running, Men, Paper

H. G. Wells, Warwick Goble (2015). “The War of the Worlds”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

Noses, Faces, Chaos

1895 Select Conversations with an Uncle, 'The Man with a Nose'.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

Sweet, Victory, Shadow

"Certain Personal Matters".

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 never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

Animal, Law, Perfect

H. G. Wells “The Time Machine”, Games by CC

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

War, Believe, People

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

Illumination, Mind, Victory

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.6925, e-artnow

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

Men, Space, Evil

H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated War of the Worlds with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.222, Powell Publications, LLC

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

Loss, Add, Vain

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.4, Booklassic

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

Eggs, Nurse, People

H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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

Government, Genius, Action

H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.41, Powell Publications, LLC

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

Fear, Wall, Pain

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.36, Booklassic

This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.

Play, Order, Age

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

Time, Mean, Men

"The Time Machine". Book by H. G. Wells, 1895.

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

Civilization, People, Promise

H. G. Wells (2006). “The Open Conspiracy: What are We to Do with Our Lives? : Blue Prints for a World Revolution”, p.11, Book Tree

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

Nature, White, Forests

HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.25, Monkfish Book Publishing

I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

Running, Animal, Men

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. Wells The Dover Reader”, p.192, Courier Dover Publications

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

Dream, Men, Lust

H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.389, Everyman's Library

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Mother, Father, Men

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Men, Bed, Twenties

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

War, Mean, Men

"Fictional character: 'Pippa' Passworthy". "Things to Come", 1936.

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

Taken, Character, World Religions

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

Book, Men, Elderly

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1397, Delphi Classics

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

Men, Crowds, Littles

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

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Home, London, Hills

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12773, Delphi Classics

If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

Keys, Long, Heaven

In A. J. P. Taylor 'Beaverbrook' (1972) ch. 8

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