649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Only people who are well off can be - complex.

We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

There's truths you have to grow into.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.