Quotes by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

British-born American author

Lived from: 1866 - 1946

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 21 september 1866 Died: 13 august 1946

Quotes 21 till 25 of 25.

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

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• There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

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• 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.

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• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• correspondence
• imperfection
• embankments
• engineering
• inexorable
• imperative

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