H. G. Wells

Are we not Men?

Would you like to see the Time Machine itself?

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

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and lulls, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way to achievement.

Our true nationality is mankind.

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman.

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses.

Strength is the outcome of need. H. G.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. H.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G.

It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them. H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G.

The past is but the past of a beginning. H. G.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom H. G.

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H. G.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H. G.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

Go away. I'm all right.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of Nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

God damn you all: I told you so.

The war that will end war.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

The shape of things to come.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.

There comes a moment in the day, when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes the hour when you are bored; that’s the time for sex.