Herbert George Wells nejznámější citáty
„Jestliže neukončíme válku, válka ukončí nás.“
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
[(en) Advertising is legalized lying.]
Zdroj: [Fernando, A.C., Business Ethics: An Indian Perspective, Pearson Education India, 2009, 978-8-13171-173-6, 5-11, anglicky]
Herbert George Wells citáty a výroky
„Naše skutečná národnost je člověčenství.“
Herbert George Wells kniha Dějiny světa
[(en) Our true nationality is mankind.]
Zdroj: [Wells, H.G., Herbert George Wells, Wagar, warren, The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind: The Roman Empire to the Great War, Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2004, 978-0-76075-867-0, 644, anglicky]
„Čím ošklivější nohy člověk má, tím lépe hraje golf - to je skoro pravidlem.“
[(en) The uglier a man's legs are the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]
Zdroj: [Wells, H.G., Bealby a Holiday, Kessinger Publishing, 2005, 978-1-41791-142-4, 167, anglicky]
Herbert George Wells: Citáty anglicky
H. G. Wells kniha The First Men in the Moon
Zdroj: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 19: Mr. Bedford Alone
The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)
H. G. Wells kniha The Invisible Man
Zdroj: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 6: The Furniture that Went Mad
“Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else.””
The New Faust https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=%22We+are+ourselves%2C+we+are+ourselves%2C+and+we%27ll+never+be+anyone+else.%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=Marguerite%2C+joyfully:+%E2%80%9CWe+are+ourselves%2C+my+dear%2C+we+are+ourselves.+We%27 (in Nash's Pall Magazine, December 1936 – adaptation of "The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham")
“Cynicism is humour in ill health.”
H. G. Wells kniha Boon
Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump (1915)
H. G. Wells kniha The Shape of Things to Come
Things to Come (1936)
H. G. Wells kniha The War of the Worlds
Book II, Ch. 8 (Ch. 25 in editions without Book divisions): Dead London
The War of the Worlds (1898)
H. G. Wells kniha The Discovery of the Future
The Discovery of the Future (1901)
The Rights of the World Citizen (1942); a revised edition of The Rights of Man
“One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.”
H. G. Wells kniha A Modern Utopia
Zdroj: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 2, sect. 6
H. G. Wells kniha The Island of Doctor Moreau
Zdroj: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Ch. 15: Concerning the Beast Folk
The Rights of Man, or what are we fighting for? (1940)
What is Coming? (1916)
H. G. Wells kniha The Invisible Man
Zdroj: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 27: The Seige of Kemp's House
H. G. Wells kniha Dějiny světa
Zdroj: The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 40
H. G. Wells kniha A Modern Utopia
Zdroj: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 8
H. G. Wells kniha Dějiny světa
The Outline of History (1920)
Attributed to Wells's book New Worlds for Old (1908) by Ferdinand Lundberg in Scoundrels All (1968), p. 126. The quote is widely repeated on the internet, but does not appear in the cited work.
Misattributed
Zdroj: First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4225 (1908), Ch.3, section 20, Of Abstinences and Disciplines
1935 speech at Barber's Hall, London, included in Round the World for Birth Control (1937) edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre
H. G. Wells kniha The Invisible Man
Zdroj: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 23: In Drury Lane
H. G. Wells kniha A Modern Utopia
Zdroj: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 3
H. G. Wells kniha A Modern Utopia
Zdroj: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 1, sect. 5
H. G. Wells kniha The Invisible Man
Zdroj: The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter 9: Mr. Thomas Marvel
“The crisis of yesterday is the joke of to-morrow.”
You Can't be Too Careful (1941)
H. G. Wells kniha Love and Mr Lewisham
Love and Mr Lewisham (1899), Ch. 23
H. G. Wells kniha A Modern Utopia
Zdroj: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 9, sect. 5
