H. G. Wells Book Quotations

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.