649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

But the Time Traveller had more than a touch of whim among his elements, and we distrusted him.

We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

The truly brave man is not the man who does not feel fear but the man who overcomes it.

Educate the Russian or the American or the Englishman or the Irishman or Frenchman or any real northern European except German, and you get the Anarchist, that is to say the man who dreams of order without organisation – of something beyond organisation...

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them – that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

You may kill me, but I can hold you – and all the universe for that matter – in the grip of this small brain. I would not change. Even now.

I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.