Frasi di H. G. Wells pagina 5

“Questo è sempre stato il destino dell'energia nei tempi di pace: avvicinarsi all'arte e all'erotismo per poi languire e spegnersi.”

Griffin: 1998, p. 156
L'uomo invisibile

H. G. Wells libro La macchina del tempo

La macchina del tempo

“Sognai febbrilmente cose che diventavano nebulose e svanivano intorno a me fino a che tutto svanì, anche il terreno su cui stavo io, ed ebbi quell'incubo impressionante di cadere nel vuoto che avrà avuto qualche volta anche lei.”

“Un animale può essere feroce e anche astuto, ma per mentire bene non c'è che l'uomo.”

Griffin: 1998, p. 128
L'uomo invisibile

“Il naso per un cane è quello che per l'uomo sono gli occhi. I cani con il loro fiuto avvertono i movimenti di un uomo come gli uomini ne avvertono, con gli occhi, il suo aspetto.”

2016, cap. XXI, p. 88

“[…] il pensiero è meraviglioso, a volte lento come la pece fluida, a volte istantaneo come la luce. (da L'uomo che poteva compiere miracoli; p. 134)”

Griffin: 1998, p. 138
L'uomo invisibile

“Una satira mordace suona male, sulla terra ancora smossa di una tomba. (da La farfalla; p. 22)”

Racconti

“Se non poniamo fine alla guerra, la guerra porrà fine a noi.”

Racconti

“Nel mondo c'è un mucchio di straordinari deficienti.”

Origine: Citato in Call of Duty 2 e all'inizio del videoclip This Is War dei 30 Seconds To Mars.

“Raymond Passworthy: But… we're such little creatures. Poor humanity's so fragile, so weak. Little… little animals.”

Origine: L'uomo invisibile

H. G. Wells: Frasi in inglese

“It seemed to me that all over the world intelligent people were waking up to the indignity and absurdity of being endangered, restrained, and impoverished, by a mere uncritical adhesion to traditional governments, traditional ideas of economic life, and traditional forms of behaviour, and that these awaking intelligent people must constitute first a protest and then a creative resistance to the inertia that was stifling and threatening us. These people I imagined would say first, "We are drifting; we are doing nothing worth while with our lives. Our lives are dull and stupid and not good enough."”

H. G. Wells libro The Shape of Things to Come

Things to Come (1936)

“I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.”

H. G. Wells libro The Open Conspiracy

The Open Conspiracy (1928)

“A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.”

The Informative Content of Education http://books.google.com/books?&id=vLs4AAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+believe+that+the+crazy+combative+patriotism+that+plainly+threatens+to+destroy+civilisation+to-day+is+very+largely+begotten+by+the+schoolmaster+and+the+schoolmistress+in+their+history+lessons+They+take+the+growing+mind+at+a+naturally+barbaric+phase+and+they+inflame+and+fix+its+barbarism%22&pg=PA242#v=onepage Speech http://archive.org/stream/reportofbritisha37adva#page/242/mode/2up given at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Nottingham, England on 2 September 1937

“The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enourmously destructive and entirely indecisive.”

H. G. Wells libro The Outline of History

The Outline of History (1920)

“It's this accursed science," I cried. "It's the very Devil. The medieval priests and persecutors were right and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it—and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons—now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now it whirls you off to desolation and misery!”

H. G. Wells libro The War in the Air

The War in the Air (1907), Ch. VIII, §1