H G Wells Quotes

Take subject matter equal to your powers, and ponder long, what your shoulders cannot bear, and what they can.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Well Ibrox is filling up slowly, but rapidly

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

Well, at least I had on underwear

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

You know, I eat, I ate pretty well anyway so, I'm basically living the same, I just curtailed the stupidity.

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

... if you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

Well, I'm sold. I'll take one America.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.

. . . well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers.

My Brethren if thou endure thy trials well though shalt be exalted.

It's your life; live it well.

Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues.

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words.

As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well.

Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

A life well used procures a happy death.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Now what I love in women is, they won't Or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it. So well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

Now that I see you understand me so well, I will avoid you.

Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

Every living thing is both a whole system in and of itself as well as an essential part of other systems.

I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.

Nature did all things well

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.