H. G. Wells frasi celebri
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H. G. Wells Frasi e Citazioni
lettera di Griffin: 1998, p. 171
L'uomo invisibile
Griffin: 1998, p. 160
L'uomo invisibile
“La stricnina è un tonico potente, Kemp, elimina ogni debolezza.
– È diabolica, – disse Kemp.”
È fuoco imbottigliato. (1998, p. 130)
L'uomo invisibile
Origine: Citato in Charlie Chaplin, La mia autobiografia, traduzione di Vincenzo Mantovani, Mondadori, 1964, p. 429.
Origine: Da A Modern Utopia, cap. IX, § 5; citato in Aa.Vv., Un gusto superiore: un modo nuovo di mangiare e di vivere, The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Italia, 1992, pp. 23-24.
Griffin: 1998, p. 156
L'uomo invisibile
“Se non poniamo fine alla guerra, la guerra porrà fine a noi.”
Origine: Citato in Call of Duty 2 e all'inizio del videoclip This Is War dei 30 Seconds To Mars.
“Nel mondo c'è un mucchio di straordinari deficienti.”
Origine: L'uomo invisibile
H. G. Wells: Frasi in inglese
Origine: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 7: The Unveiling of the Stranger
“Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.”
Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church (1943)
Book II, Ch. 10 (Ch. 27 in editions without Book divisions): The Epilogue
The War of the Worlds (1898)
On the British government's decision to build the Singapore Naval Base, in an article for the Westminster Gazette (13 October 1923)
The Salvaging of Civilization (1921)
Quoted in Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography (1964)
Origine: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 25: The Hunting of the Invisible Man
Kipps the Story of a Simple Soul (1905) Bk. 2, ch. 5
Origine: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 24: The Natural History of the Selenites
“Man is an imperfect animal and never quite trustworthy in the dark.”
The Open Conspiracy (1928)
“Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.”
Origine: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 3
Origine: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4225 (1908), Ch. 4, sect. 6, The Last Confession
Origine: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 19: Certain First Principles
Origine: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 7: The Unveiling of the Stranger
The Outlook for Homo Sapiens (1942)
“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.”
Book II, Ch. 8 (Ch. 25 in editions without Book divisions): Dead London
The War of the Worlds (1898)
“He was inordinately proud of England, and he abused her incessantly.”
Mr. Britling Sees It Through, Bk. 1, ch. 2, sect. 2 (1916)