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Letter "H" » H. G. Wells Quotes
«Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
sailors
«Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
conquered, conquest, Deep End, deep space, ending, go across, last out, mysteries, planets, restrain, The Deep, The Planets, too soon
«There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
Bridges, devices, imperfection, machinery, oblige, railway, railways, ugliness
«I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
crew, crews, flounder, floundering, flounders, refuses, submarine, submarines, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, The crew
«The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
doctrines, Human thought, revolutionary, stirred, The Kingdom
«We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
conception, fifteenth, fifteenth century, suggest, universities, way out
«Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
abound, abounding, abounds, abound in, cycle, tracks, Utopia
«Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
imperative, inexorable, perish
«After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.»
«Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.»
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