Wells Quotes - Page 30

Grief is good...it is a sign of how well we have loved.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

Well, that day is gone, and it will not occur again.

I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.

I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

Well, actually, plucking my eyebrows is more of a hobby than a grooming tip.

Bear suits are funny - and bears as well.

God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

She endured. And survived. Marginally, perhaps, but it is not required of us that we live well.

One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Do what you like to do so well that someone will pay you wages for it.