H G Wells Quotes

Well, the Lord is going to get another one.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create!

I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

Everybody who was involved in that culture [Wells Fargo] should be held accountable.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.

If someone doesn't hate what you're doing - you're not doing very well.

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

The further away I am from water, the less well I do!

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

I learned to yodel pretty well. It took me a few months, but I eventually perfected it.

Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.

I guess emotion really isn't necessary for me to go out and perform well.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

Well, I like the rain before it falls.

Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.

Use well thy freedom.

I'm on my own, luckily doing well, but like I said, we don't make a ridiculous amount of money and I have to be disciplined with what I do with it.

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer - even as Wells thought about him - or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.

You have to know writing styles well before you can copy them - and then incorporate parts of them into your own style.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

Inherently, making a movie is tough because there's so much anticipation when it happens - even if everything goes well.

What is a well-chosen collection of pictures, but walls hung round with thoughts?

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor.