Top 25 Quotes by H. G. Wells of 355 - Page 7

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

H. G. Wells

Blow, Ideas, People

H. G. Wells (2005). “The Soul of a Bishop”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

H. G. Wells

Past, Men, Cities

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.3310, e-artnow

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H. G. Wells

Successful, Atheism, Literature

H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.68, H. G. Wells

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

H. G. Wells

Choices, Exploration, Space Exploration

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

H. G. Wells

Book, Night, Stories

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

H. G. Wells

Animal, Vegetarianism, World

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1995, Delphi Classics

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

H. G. Wells

Women, Imagination, Understood

"Fictional character: Rowena". "Things to Come", 1936.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

H. G. Wells

Believe, Character, Fiction

Chess is a curse upon a man.

H. G. Wells

Men, Chess, Curse

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

H. G. Wells

Essence, Quality, Hinduism

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

H. G. Wells

Blessed, Dies

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.1137, e-artnow

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

H. G. Wells

Religious, Men, People

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10332, Delphi Classics

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

H. G. Wells

Years, Long, Waiting

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

H. G. Wells

Law, Intellectual, Trouble

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.79, Delphi Classics

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

H. G. Wells

Blood, Community, Suffering

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16112, Delphi Classics

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

H. G. Wells

Exercise, Men, Two

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.6662, e-artnow

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

H. G. Wells

Art, Artist, Journalist

H. G. Wells (2017). “The Time Machine”, p.10, Oxford University Press

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

H. G. Wells

Real, Lying, Animal

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.92, 谷月社

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

H. G. Wells

Interesting, May, Remains

We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

H. G. Wells

Time, Velocity, Uniforms

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

H. G. Wells

Funny, Time, Morning

"My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, 1964.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

H. G. Wells

Battle, Quiet, Time Machine

H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.22, Sparklesoup LLC

What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

H. G. Wells

Strong, Wall, Men

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

H. G. Wells

Fall, Men, Animal

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.7317, e-artnow

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

H. G. Wells

Men, Civilization, Atheism

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