H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 13

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• Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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  Men, Political, Liberty

  H. G. Wells (1933). “Shape Things Come”

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• Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

  H. G. Wells

  Hurt, Men, Littles

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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

  H. G. Wells

  People, Humanity, Common

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.205, Everyman's Library

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• By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

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  Despair, Limits, Miserable

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.60, H. G. Wells

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• Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

  H. G. Wells

  Hunting, Sphere Of Influence, Spheres

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12554, Delphi Classics

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• Only people who are well off can be - complex.

  H. G. Wells

  People, Wells, Complexes

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1116, Delphi Classics

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• IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

  H. G. Wells

  Mind, Quality, Gathering

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• He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

  H. G. Wells

  Struggle, Sweat, Verbs

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• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

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  Gratitude, Flower, Heart

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.57, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

  H. G. Wells

  Reason, Said, Traveller

  H.G. Wells (2014). “The Time Machine”, p.11, Diderot Publishing

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• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

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• A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

  H. G. Wells

  Biographies, Made, Should

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16701, Delphi Classics

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• The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Savages

  'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

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• It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

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  Reality, Feet, Cinema

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• 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.

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  Wine, World, Realizing

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• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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  Twilight, Past, Dawn

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

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  Philosophy, Home, Space

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• The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance.
  He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.
  But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are
  given to administer we presently imagine we own.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Law, Weakness

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14671, Delphi Classics

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• Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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  Clever, Mistake, Men

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.12, Everyman's Library

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• Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

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  Life, Lying, Risk

  "Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", 1936.

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• Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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  Mean, Mind, Suggestions

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• If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

  H. G. Wells

  Glimpse, World, Leisure

  H.G. Wells (2014). “The Time Machine”, p.97, Diderot Publishing

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• I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

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  Men, Doubt, Invisibility

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Invisible Man”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

  H. G. Wells

  World, Vivid, Firsts

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.23, H. G. Wells

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