H. G. Wells quotes - page 2

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. (H. G. Wells)
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. View quote
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. View quote
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. View quote
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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. View quote
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The science of economics hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. View quote
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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. View quote
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. View quote
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'Pippa' Passworthy: This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. (H. G. Wells)
The Boss: The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed. View quote
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What really matters is what you do with what you have. View quote
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. View quote
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You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. View quote
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. View quote
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Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept. View quote
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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. View quote
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Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. View quote
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling. View quote
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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)
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature. View quote
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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic. View quote
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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. View quote
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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply. View quote
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