The Works of H.G. Wells Quotes

“Mejoramos gradualmente nuestras plantas y animales favoritos —que son pocos—, mediante la cría y el cultivo selectivos: ahora un melocotón nuevo y mejorado, ahora una uva sin pepitas, ahora una flor más fragante y grande, ahora una raza más conveniente de ganado.”
― H.G. Wells, Grandes novelas

“Then I look about me at my fellow-men; and I go in fear. I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere, — none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them;”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“I’m an Invisible Man. It’s no foolishness, and no magic. I really am an Invisible Man. And I want your help. I don’t want to hurt you, but if you behave like a frantic rustic, I must. Don’t you remember me, Kemp? Griffin, of University College?” “Let me get up,” said Kemp. “I’ll stop where I am. And let me sit quiet for a minute.” He sat up and felt his neck. “I am Griffin, of University College, and I have made myself invisible. I am just an ordinary man — a man you have known — made invisible.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“Sin embargo, era una de esas criaturas débiles, una de esas almas carentes de orgullo, timoratas, anémicas, odiosas, movida por sospechosas maquinaciones, que no se enfrentan ni a Dios ni al hombre, que no se enfrentan siquiera a sí mismas.”
― H.G. Wells, Grandes novelas

“Pero atravesando el abismo del espacio, mentes que son respecto a nuestras mentes como las nuestras respecto a las de las bestias perecederas, intelectos vastos, fríos e implacables, contemplaban este planeta con ojos envidiosos, y tramaban lenta y decididamente sus planes contra nosotros.”
― H.G. Wells, Grandes novelas

“El don anglosajón para el gobierno parlamentario parecía imponerse; se habló mucho, aunque no se llevó a cabo ninguna acción decisiva.”
― H.G. Wells, Grandes novelas

“La máquina del tiempo había desaparecido. Salvo por las agitadas nubes de polvo, el extremo más alejado del laboratorio estaba vacío.”
― H.G. Wells, Grandes novelas

“Y como el ganado, no conocían enemigos y no se preparaban para nada. Y su fin era el mismo.”
― H.G. Wells, Grandes novelas

“He expected dire punishments, but these blind people were capable of toleration. They regarded his rebellion as but one more proof of his general idiocy and inferiority; and after they had whipped him they appointed him to do the simplest and heaviest work they had for anyone to do, and he, seeing no other way of living, did submissively what he was told.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“They told him there were indeed no mountains at all, but that the end of the rocks where the llamas grazed was indeed the end of the world; thence sprang a cavernous roof of the universe, from which the dew and the avalanches fell; and when he maintained stoutly the world had neither end nor roof such as they supposed, they said his thoughts were wicked.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“Has no one told you, ‘In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is
King’?” “What is blind?” asked the blind man carelessly over his shoulder. Four days passed, and the fifth found the King of the Blind still incognito, as a clumsy and useless stranger among his subjects.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“There was a pause as if the unseen persons about him tried to understand his words. Then the voice of Correa said: “He is but newly formed. He stumbles as he walks and mingles words that mean nothing with his speech.” Others also said things about him that he heard or understood imperfectly.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“So they shouted, and Pedro went first and took Nunez by the hand to lead him to the houses. He drew his hand away. “I can see,” he said. “See?” said Correa. “Yes, see,” said Nunez, turning towards him, and stumbled against Pedro’s pail. “His senses are still imperfect,” said the third blind man. “He stumbles, and talks unmeaning words. Lead him by the hand.” “As you will,” said Nunez, and was led along, laughing.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“They were particoloured with extraordinary irregularity, smeared with a sort of plaster that was sometimes grey, sometimes drab, sometimes slate-coloured or dark brown; and it was the sight of this wild plastering first brought the word “blind” into the thoughts of the explorer. “The good man who did that,” he thought, “must have been as blind as a bat.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“Recriminations never, perhaps, held the foreground of the talk, but they played like summer lightning on the edge of the conversation.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“All at once you are Lord of yourself, Lord of every hour in the long, vacant day; you may go where you please, call none Sir or Madame, have a lappel free of pins, doff your black morning coat, and wear the colour of your heart, and be a Man. You grudge sleep, you grudge eating, and drinking even, their intrusion on those exquisite moments. There will be no more rising before breakfast in casual old clothing, to go dusting and getting ready in a cheerless, shutter-darkened, wrappered-up shop, no more imperious cries of, “Forward, Hoopdriver,” no more hasty meals, and weary attendance on fitful old women, for ten blessed days.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“The advent of the bicycle stirred sudden and profound changes in the social life of England. It was unprecedented that a person of modest means could travel substantial distances, quickly, cheaply and without being limited to railway schedules.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“We locked ourselves in, and then took Moreau’s mangled body into the yard and laid it upon a pile of brushwood. Then we went into the laboratory and put an end to all we found living there.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“They may once have been animals; but I never before saw an animal trying to think.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“It was one of my uncle's profoundest remarks that human beings are the only unreasonable creatures.”
― H.G. Wells, The Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“She amuses me with her suspicions. Such odd ideas! In a Curate’s wife. But I hope it didn’t happen when you were in orders.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“Marks of mental weakness,” said the Doctor. “Many of this type of degenerate show this same disposition to assume some vast mysterious credentials. One will call himself the Prince of Wales, another the Archangel Gabriel, another the Deity even. Ibsen thinks he is a Great Teacher, and Maeterlink a new Shakespeare. I’ve just been reading all about it — in Nordau. No doubt his odd deformity gave him an idea....”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells

“You hit something. That alone would disconcert you. You find you have hit an Angel, and he writhes about for a minute and then sits up and addresses you. He makes no apology for his own impossibility.”
― H.G. Wells, Delphi Collected Works of H.G. Wells