H. G. Wells Quotes

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells By ten o'clock the police organization, and by midday even the railway organizations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man; we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space. ~ The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells