H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Quotes

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

It's against reason, " said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.