H G Wells Quotes

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God.

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

[David Harker asked: Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good ideas?] Well David, I have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well.

I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.

I want a woman who can arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Narcissus never wrote well nor was a friend.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Well maybe it is stupid, but it's also dumb!

Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.

The American mind in particular has been trained to equate success with victory, to equate doing well with beating someone.

Actually I dance really well on the floor.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.

Well, we better be quick and not become human popsicles. I’m going to be really upset at you if I freeze to death. (Shahara)

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

I have a great story to tell and I tell it well. No holds barred.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

I dont sit well. I like to move around as I talk.

A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.

Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

What's well begun is half done.

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

Sometimes it's hard to pick right from wrong. The best thing we can do is go with our heart and hope it all goes well.

Love well, be loved and do something of value.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others.

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.