H.G. Wells Quotes

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

Strength is the outcome of need.

None but mothers know each other's feelings when we give up our daughters whom we love and cherish so tenderly to the mercies of a man, and perhaps even a stranger.

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

Every dogma must have its day.

Influence follows close upon the heels of character; and whatever we are, that we shall in the end be acknowledged to be.

There's truths you have to grow into.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

I am stronger than my trials.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Chess is a curse upon a man.

Men can see the greatest miracles and miss the glory of God. What generation was ever favored with miracles as Jesus' generations was? Yet that generation crucified the Son of God!

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.