H. G. Wells

I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.

H. G. Wells

I suppose I am fairly alert and interested in people, and that is my most attractive quality.

H. G. Wells

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

H. G. Wells

It is all one spectacle of forces running to waste, of people who use and do not replace, the story of a country hectic with a wasting aimless fever of trade and money-making and pleasure-seeking.

H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.

H. G. Wells

It is really in the end a far more humane proceeding than our earthly method of leaving children to grow into human beings, and then making machines of them.

H. G. Wells

It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as they did.

H. G. Wells

It was not like the beginning of a journey; it was like the beginning of a dream.

H. G. Wells

Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die.

H. G. Wells

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

H. G. Wells