Famous HG Wells Quotes

  • The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. – HG Wells

    The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.– HG Wells

  • I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then. – HG Wells

    I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come next as I felt then.– HG Wells

  • He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills. – HG Wells

    He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.– HG Wells

  • This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to ?????cism, and then comes languor and decay. – HG Wells

    This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to ?????cism, and then comes languor and decay.– HG Wells

  • But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die. – HG Wells

    But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.– HG Wells

  • But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! – HG Wells

    But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp!– HG Wells

  • Our true nationality is mankind. – HG Wells

    Our true nationality is mankind.– HG Wells

  • Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world. – HG Wells

    Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world.– HG Wells

  • There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair. – HG Wells

    There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair.– HG Wells

  • For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe. – HG Wells

    For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe.– HG Wells