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Famous H. G. Wells Quotes
“For after the Battle comes quiet.”
“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”
“What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?”
“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”
“We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.”
“The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.”
“There's truths you have to grow into.”
“Only people who are well off can be - complex.”
“I hope, or I could not live.”
“States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.”
“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
“It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.”
“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
“But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.”
“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”
“...fact takes no heed of human hopes.”