H. G. Wells

A young mistress is better than an old master.

H. G. Wells

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

H. G. Wells

All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.

H. G. Wells

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

H. G. Wells

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

H. G. Wells

At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience.

H. G. Wells

At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.

H. G. Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells

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

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

H. G. Wells