215 Quotes by H.G. Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

He buried his nose in his pillow and went to sleep—to dream of anything rather than getting on in the world, as a sensible young man in his position ought to have done.

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

Our true nationality is mankind.

The thing they wanted they called the Vote, but that demand so hollow, so eyeless, had all the terrifying effect of a mask. Behind that mask was a formless invincible discontent with the lot of womanhood. It wanted, — it was not clear what it wanted, but whatever it wanted, all the domestic instincts of mankind were against admitting there was anything it could want.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Let us drink more particularly to the coming of the day when men beyond there will learn to distinguish between qualitative and quantitative questions, to temper good intentions with good intelligence, and righteousness with wisdom. One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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

That's what we are now—just ants. Only——""Yes," I said."We're eatable ants.