Quotes from H.G. Wells

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

Good books are the warehouses of ideals.

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves.

Advertising is legalized lying.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.