649 Quotes by 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.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.