The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. H. G. Wells More Quotes by H. G. Wells More Quotes From H. G. Wells I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State. H. G. Wells mankind states world Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning. H. G. Wells stars time men It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. H. G. Wells future dream believe War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through. H. G. Wells dream war peace By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H. G. Wells tolls earth men Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. H. G. Wells premium outcomes needs The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive. H. G. Wells indecisive thirds warfare We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die. H. G. Wells dies blessed The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves. H. G. Wells army men philosophy I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. H. G. Wells writing men book Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells truth men lying Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous. H. G. Wells may promise firsts A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. H. G. Wells biographies should made A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?" H. G. Wells newspapers men world Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept. H. G. Wells trustworthy noble form Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools. H. G. Wells wise men heaven I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic. H. G. Wells appreciate lying thinking I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply. H. G. Wells very-deep people If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course. H. G. Wells keys heaven long 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 cat dog class
