649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

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

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

This blessed gift of smoking!

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.