H.G. Wells Quotes - Page 2

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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.

What I want to know is, in the Middle Ages, did they do anything for Housemaid's Knee? What did they put in their hot baths after jousting?

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain
in the world had found a voice

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of
existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

It is when suffering finds a voice and
sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

For it is just this question of pain that parts
us. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your own
pains drive you; so long as pain underlies your propositions about
sin, - so long, I tell you, you are an animal, thinking a little less obscurely
what an animal feels.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within-not without. It is each man's own affair.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

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

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.