649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

For neither do men live nor die in vain. Here.

I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours – that is another matter.

Democracy’s ceremonial, its feast, it’s great function, is the election.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.

When, 200 years ago, the political center of the United States was transferred from Washington to Centropolis, the newspaper followed the government and assumed the name of Earth Chronicle.

He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps.

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.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man – the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks.