H.G. Wells Quotes

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

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

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

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

They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks.

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

I've always been an Industrial fan. People who say "Industrial is out" are the same people who will say "IDM is out" in a year or two. Ambulance chasers.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

We really care about keeping the peace with people around us. We grew differently, that's all.

As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.

I just think that we show an awful lot of deference to chefs in our culture and maybe not enough deference to customers.

I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Forget love. Try good manners.

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Our closeness to the Lord will, in great measure, determine the peace and comfort and renewed strength that we feel as we invite the Spirit into our lives.

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.

Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ

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