I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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