H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 15

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• In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Men, Elderly

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1397, Delphi Classics

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• If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

  H. G. Wells

  Keys, Long, Heaven

  In A. J. P. Taylor 'Beaverbrook' (1972) ch. 8

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• This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.

  H. G. Wells

  Play, Order, Age

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• The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

  H. G. Wells

  Sweet, Victory, Shadow

  "Certain Personal Matters".

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• This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Mean, Men

  "Fictional character: 'Pippa' Passworthy". "Things to Come", 1936.

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