Top 450 H. G. Wells Quotes (2024 Update)
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H. G. Wells Quote: “How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”

201. “How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”

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H. G. Wells Quote: “I am just a human being – solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too – But I’m invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible.”

202. “I am just a human being – solid, needing food and drink, needing covering too – But I’m invisible. You see? Invisible. Simple idea. Invisible.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.”

203. “He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe – I have thought since – I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But.”

204. “The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe – I have thought since – I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There’s truths you have to grow into.”

205. “There’s truths you have to grow into.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.”

206. “There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.”

207. “I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.”

208. “The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?”

209. “Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

210. “An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back – changed!”

211. “Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back – changed!”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.”

212. “We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a.”

213. “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”

214. “Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.”

215. “The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There is no way out or round or through.”

216. “There is no way out or round or through.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.”

217. “I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.”

218. “You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.”

219. “Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “He said very little, but his eyes were eloquent; the clutch of his arms was eloquent. He was the playground of unspeakable emotions. These, you know, were real Magics.”

220. “He said very little, but his eyes were eloquent; the clutch of his arms was eloquent. He was the playground of unspeakable emotions. These, you know, were real Magics.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”

221. “I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King’s war with Germany.”

222. “We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King’s war with Germany.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.”

223. “But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “What is your theologian’s ecstasy but Mahomet’s houri in the dark?”

224. “What is your theologian’s ecstasy but Mahomet’s houri in the dark?”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating.”

225. “He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But you begin now to realise,” said the Invisible Man, “the full disadvantage of my condition. I had no shelter – no covering – to get clothing was to forego all my advantage, to make myself a strange and terrible thing. I was fasting; for to eat, to fill myself with unassimilated matter, would be to become grotesquely visible again.”

226. “But you begin now to realise,” said the Invisible Man, “the full disadvantage of my condition. I had no shelter – no covering – to get clothing was to forego all my advantage, to make myself a strange and terrible thing. I was fasting; for to eat, to fill myself with unassimilated matter, would be to become grotesquely visible again.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.”

227. “We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

228. “Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”

229. “Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Time is only a kind of Space.”

230. “Time is only a kind of Space.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.”

231. “But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.”

232. “The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “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.”

233. “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.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “But to me the future is still black and blank–is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers –shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle–to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”

234. “But to me the future is still black and blank–is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers –shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle–to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”

235. “There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes – to come to this at last.”

236. “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide. It had set itself steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword, it had attained its hopes – to come to this at last.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess.”

237. “There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.”

238. “It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.”

239. “Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.”

240. “If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Every conceivable sort of silly creature that has ever been created has been sent to cross me.”

241. “Every conceivable sort of silly creature that has ever been created has been sent to cross me.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “If the world does not please you, you can change it.”

242. “If the world does not please you, you can change it.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”

243. “Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.”

244. “There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.”

245. “Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”

246. “I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been. It had committed suicide.”

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

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.”

248. “Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions.”

249. “Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived. And now came the reaction of the altered conditions.”

— H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells Quote: “By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything.”

250. “By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything.”

— H. G. Wells

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