H. G. Wells Quotes, Artist Quotes, Wish Quotes

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

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There are no social differences - till women come in.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

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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.

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

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