Top 25 Quotes by H. G. Wells of 355 - Page 8

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

H. G. Wells

Lying, Thinking, Appreciate

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

H. G. Wells

Lying, Silly, Light

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

H. G. Wells

Passion, Artist, Men

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

H. G. Wells

Chess, Remorse

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

H. G. Wells

Kings, War, Germany

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.17075, Delphi Classics

Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

H. G. Wells

Adventure, Men, Moon

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.2172, e-artnow

To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

H. G. Wells

Inspirational, Believe, Doubt

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.330, Delphi Classics

Go away... I'm alright.

H. G. Wells

Going Away, Greatest Love, Last Words

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

H. G. Wells

War, Hands, People

H.G. Wells (1914). “the World Set Free”

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

H. G. Wells

Jesus, Men, Giving

H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.153, Xist Publishing

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

H. G. Wells

Funny, New Year, Time

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.15, Penguin UK

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

Passion, Writing, Editing

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

H. G. Wells

Artist, Critics

"The Temptaion of Harringay". Book by H. G. Wells, 1929.

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

H. G. Wells

Work, Years, Machines

H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

H. G. Wells

Friendship, Broken Heart, Work

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

H. G. Wells

Eggs, Light, Church

'Boon' (1915) ch. 4

Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

H. G. Wells

Religious, Sacrifice, 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.2683, e-artnow

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

H. G. Wells

Fighting, Tolerance, Different

H. G. Wells (2012). “H. G. Wells Collector's Book of Science Fiction”, Castle Books

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.

H. G. Wells

Mean, Men, Islands

My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

H. G. Wells

Reading, Animal, Night

H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated Island of Doctor Moreau with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.168, Powell Publications, LLC

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

H. G. Wells

Left, Seems

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16644, Delphi Classics

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

H. G. Wells

Men, Thinking, Use

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

H. G. Wells

Voice, Suffering, Nerves

H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.46, H. G. Wells

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

H. G. Wells

Wealth Of Knowledge, Ideas, House

The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

H. G. Wells

Dog, Cat, Class

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16703, Delphi Classics

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