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There were half a dozen villas burning on the Woking border. — H.G.Wells

Fine hospitality," said I, "to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you. — H.G.Wells

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. — H.G.Wells

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. — H.G.Wells

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion — H.G.Wells

So long as you are alive you are just the moment, perhaps, but when you are dead then you are all your life from the first moment to the last. — H.G.Wells

Ambition - what is the good of pride of place when you cannot appear there? What is the good of the love of woman when her name must needs be Delilah? — H.G.Wells

Hunger makes a fool of a man. — H.G.Wells

Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing. — H.G.Wells

It's chance, I tell you,' he interrupted, ' as everything is in a man's life. — H.G.Wells

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before. — H.G.Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health. — H.G.Wells

It was not like the beginning of a journey; it was like the beginning of a dream. — H.G.Wells

The science fiction author, H.G. Wells was an avid supporter of eugenics and a believer in a hierarchy of the races. — A.E. Samaan

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. — H.G.Wells

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. — H.G.Wells

There is no way out or round or through. — H.G.Wells

But to me the future is still black and blank - is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And — H.G.Wells

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. — H.G.Wells

I was grotesque to the theatrical pitch, a stage miser, but I was certainly not a physical impossibility — H.G.Wells

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

Everyone seemed eager to talk at once, and the result was Babel. — H.G.Wells

We must end war before war ends us. — H.G.Wells

Great land of sublimated things, thou World of Books, happy asyluum, refreshment and refuge from the world of everyday! ... — H.G.Wells

For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe. — H.G.Wells

Something - exactly like a finger and thumb it felt - nipped my nose. — H.G.Wells

You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires. — H.G.Wells

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear. — H.G.Wells

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. — H.G.Wells

Even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. — H.G.Wells

Advertising is legalized lying. — H.G.Wells

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. — H.G.Wells

Once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely. — H.G.Wells

What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection. — H.G.Wells

We should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelligent rabbit. — H.G.Wells

Our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands. Some day all this will be better organized, and still better. — H.G.Wells

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime ... A large number of houses deserve to be burnt. — H.G.Wells

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad
or have I? — H.G.Wells

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. — H.G.Wells

A douche of spray blinded my brother for a moment. — H.G.Wells

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it. — H.G.Wells

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart ... — H.G.Wells

There is only one sort of man who is absolutely to blame for his own misery, and that is the man who finds life dull and dreary. — H.G.Wells

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done. — H.G.Wells

They were put into my pockets by Weena, when I traveled into Time. — H.G.Wells

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship. — H.G.Wells

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. — H.G.Wells

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen. — H.G.Wells

[N]othing is so pleasing to perplexed unhappy people as the denunciation of others, — H.G.Wells

There's some ex-traordinary things in books, said the mariner. — H.G.Wells

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings. — H.G.Wells

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. — H.G.Wells

I am asking for Liberal Fascists, for enlightened Nazis. — H.G.Wells

Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations. — H.G.Wells

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. — H.G.Wells

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians. — H.G.Wells

One can't always be magnificent, but simplicity is always a possible alternative. — H.G.Wells

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. — H.G.Wells

Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men? — H.G.Wells

We're eatable ants. — H.G.Wells

Security sets a premium on feebleness. — H.G.Wells

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. — H.G.Wells

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. — H.G.Wells

Civilization is a race between disaster and education. — 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

By our daylight standard he walked out of security into darkness, danger, and death.
But did he see like that? — H.G.Wells

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. — H.G.Wells

Mr. Thomas Marvel hated roomy shoes, but then he hated damp. He had never properly thought out which he hated most — H.G.Wells

The past is but the past of a beginning. — H.G.Wells

There's something in this starlight that loosens one's tongue. I'm an ass, and yet somehow I would like to tell you. — H.G.Wells

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure. — H.G.Wells

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

No man goes out upon a novel expedition without misgivings.

The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Loc 245) — H.G.Wells

Few people realize the immensity of vacancy. — H.G.Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. — H.G.Wells

We always assumed the aliens would have to at least be alive to invade. Not even H.G. Wells expected an invasion of ghosts. — Stephen King

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. — H.G.Wells

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. — H.G.Wells

I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. - H. G. WELLS — William Gibson

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out. — H.G.Wells

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G.Wells

Go away. I'm all right. [last words] — H.G.Wells

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door. — H.G.Wells

Bless my soul alive! — H.G.Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. — H.G.Wells

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories ... And those that carry us forward, are dreams. — H.G.Wells

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. — H.G.Wells

I hope, or I could not live. — H.G.Wells

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. — H.G.Wells

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

You can't see beauty with miserable eyes. — H.G.Wells

This blessed gift of smoking! — H.G.Wells

Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end. — H.G.Wells

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin — H.G.Wells

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. — H.G.Wells

Oh God, is there ever to be any age of happiness? Is there never to be any rest? — H.G.Wells

...the sense of my utter loneliness had been agony... — H.G.Wells

But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! — H.G.Wells