H. G. Wells Quotes

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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

I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

H. G. Wells

He had developed in the most wonderful way the distinctive silliness of man without losing one jot of the natural folly of a monkey.

H. G. Wells

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

H. G. Wells

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

H. G. Wells

And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.

H. G. Wells

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

H. G. Wells