Tono-Bungay Quotes

“Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the roles of their type.”
― H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay

“It was Plutarch, you know, and nothing intrinsically American that prevented George Washington being a King...”
― H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay

“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?”
― H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay

“...I suppose it is a lingering trace of Plutarch and my ineradicable boyish imagination that at bottom our State should be wise, sane, and dignified, that makes me think a country which leaves its medical and literary criticism, or indeed any such vitally important criticism, entirely to private enterprise and open to the advances of any purchaser much be in a frankly hopeless condition.”
― H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay

“What hope is there for a people whose women become fruitless?”
― H.G. Wells, Tono-Bungay