Quotes by H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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For after the Battle comes quiet. — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no ne — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
After all, the sanitation and the agriculture of today are still in the rudimentary stage. The science of our time has a — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like t — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
My dear sir, that is just where you are wrong. That is just where the whole world has gone wrong. We are always getting — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena. — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Hav — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
It's against reason," said Filby."What reason?" said the Time Traveller. — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to w — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at l — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should thi — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation. — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom — H.G. Wells, The Time Machine