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H. G. Wells Quotes

H. G. Wells quotes

English Author, Writer September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946

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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells quote: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education..."
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells
You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel—a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady H. G. Wells
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this. H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells quote: "All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious..."
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. H. G. Wells
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. H. G. Wells
No one would have believe in the last years of the nineteenth century we werebeing scrutinised like a scientist looksthrough his microscope at transient beings that swarm and multiply in a dropof water. And yet from the gulf of spaceminds immesurably superior to ours with intellects vast, cold and unsympatheticregard our Earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely they drew their plansagainst us. H. G. Wells
Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her pale eyes wide open.'Ay,' she broke in; 'and eight-and-twenty years you have lived and never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's a many things to see, when one's still but eight-and-twenty.' She swayed her head slowly from side to side. 'A many things to see and sorrow for.' ("The Red Room") H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells quote: "Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've..."
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. H. G. Wells
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage. H. G. Wells
Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart. H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells quote: "History is a race between education and catastrophe."
History is a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells quote: "It was not like the beginning of a journey; it was like the..."
It was not like the beginning of a journey; it was like the beginning of a dream. H. G. Wells
Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me. H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells quote: "Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on..."
Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. H. G. Wells

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