H. G. Wells Quotes

“If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Underworld in a second, and examined it at leisure.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:memory

“It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.”

― H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

topic:war

“She always seemed to me, I fancy, more human than she was, perhaps because her affection was so human.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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

― H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau

topic:suffering

“Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:weakness comfort

“The too-perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, to a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:intelligence

“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, The Time Machine

topic:intelligence doubt

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island.”

― H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau

topic:faith

“I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:romance vanity

“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.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:stars

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