H. G. Wells

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

For after the Battle comes quiet.

H. G. Wells

Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.

H. G. Wells

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

H. G. Wells

I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

H. G. Wells

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

I had never realised it before, but the nose is to the mind of a dog what the eye is to the mind of a seeing man. Dogs perceive the scent of a man moving as men perceive his vision.

H. G. Wells

I hope, or I could not live.

H. G. Wells

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world.

H. G. Wells

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

H. G. Wells