H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 9

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• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Artist, Journalist

  H. G. Wells (2017). “The Time Machine”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• Go away... I'm alright.

  H. G. Wells

  Going Away, Greatest Love, Last Words

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• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  H. G. Wells

  Teacher, Jesus, Retirement

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.154, Xist Publishing

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• The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

  H. G. Wells

  Dog, Cat, Class

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16703, Delphi Classics

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• He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

  H. G. Wells

  Fighting, Tolerance, Different

  H. G. Wells (2012). “H. G. Wells Collector's Book of Science Fiction”, Castle Books

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• [A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Light, Church

  'Boon' (1915) ch. 4

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• It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

  H. G. Wells

  Left, Seems

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.16644, Delphi Classics

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• An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

  H. G. Wells

  Artist, Critics

  "The Temptaion of Harringay". Book by H. G. Wells, 1929.

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• There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

  H. G. Wells

  Work, Years, Machines

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  H. G. Wells

  Friendship, Broken Heart, Work

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1733, Delphi Classics

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• The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise, and a people who will not stand up to the necessity of air service planned on a world scale, and taking over thousands of aeroplanes and thousands of men from the onset of peace, has no business to pretend anything more than a second rate position in the world. We cannot be both Imperial and mean.

  H. G. Wells

  Mean, Men, Islands

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• It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

  H. G. Wells

  Voice, Suffering, Nerves

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.46, H. G. Wells

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• Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Children, Doors

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• In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Boys, Pigs

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.176, H. G. Wells

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• Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

  H. G. Wells

  Vegetables, Kingdoms, Violence

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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.

  H. G. Wells

  Return, Succeed, Going Out

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.13237, Delphi Classics

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• The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Lasts, Study

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

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  War, Men, Thinking

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• An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

  H. G. Wells

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Ideas, House

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• A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Order, World

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• Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Numbers, House

  1909 The History of Mr Polly, ch.10, pt.1.

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• We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

  H. G. Wells

  Hurt, War, Achievement

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

  H. G. Wells

  Book, Savages, Letters

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3304, Delphi Classics

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• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

  H. G. Wells

  Insomnia, Long, Mind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3207, Delphi Classics

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• The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

  H. G. Wells

  Clever, Men, Saws

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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