H. G. Wells Quotes

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

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This blessed gift of smoking!

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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.

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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

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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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A young mistress is better than an old master.

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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

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

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We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

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If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

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The future is the shape of things to come.

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