649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

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

Every economic dissertation and discussion reminds one more strongly than the last of the game of croquet Alice played in Wonderland

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

Мы забываем о законе природы, гласящем, что гибкость ума является наградой за опасности, тревоги и превратности жизни. Существо, которое живет в совершенной гармонии с окружающими условиями, превращается в простую машину. Природа никогда не прибегает к разуму до тех пор, пока ей служат привычка и инстинкт. Там, где нет перемен и необходимости в переменах, разум погибает. Только те существа обладают им, которые сталкиваются со всевозможными нуждами и опасностями.

I took my line straight away. I knew I was staking everything, but I jumped there and then. "We're on absolutely the biggest thing that has ever been invented," I said, and put the accent on "we." "If you want to keep me out of this, you'll have to do it with a gun. I'm coming down to be your fourth labourer to-morrow.