649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

He seemed under a chronic irritation of the greatest intensity. His habit of talking to himself in a low voice grew steadily upon him, but though Mrs. Hall listened conscientiously she could make neither head nor tail of what she heard.

I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

You’ve made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.

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

Like a committee in a thieves’ kitchen when someone has casually mentioned the law.

What is your theologian’s ecstasy but Mahomet’s houri in the dark?

Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity – pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.

Looks to me like the sort of fellow one doesn’t play cards with.