H. G. Wells Quotes, Funny Quotes, Time Quotes

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 that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

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Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

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

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It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

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Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

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

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

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

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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

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Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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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.

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