H.G. Wells Quotes

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

The War That Will End War.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

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

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.

If you're not satisfied with your life, it's time to invent a new one.

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.

Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess", said Marcus. "My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

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

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

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.

I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.

Society's the mother of convention.

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

If other things must be destroyed in order for fire to exist, that's all right with fire. As far as fire is concerned, that's what those things are there for in the first place.

Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.