The Wheels of Chance Quotes

“There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results indeed, but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

“There are occasions when a moralising novelist can merely wring his hands and leave matters to take their course.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll

“The situation was primordial. The Man beneath prevailed for a moment over the civilised superstructure, the Draper. He pushed at the pedals with archaic violence. So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll

“To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair—chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll

“Literature is revelation.”
― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll

“no more hasty meals, and weary attendance on fitful old women,”
― H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll