37 Quotes by H.G. Wells (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: October 30, 2023

Find and rate the best quotes from H.G. Wells's works, selected from famous or less known movies, plays and other sources, featuring short audio clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

2 Precedent in our own evolution makes it possible that they have more than one brain. -You mean two? Three?

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

3 The Martians can conquer the Earth in six days. -The same number of days it took to create it.

Quote from The War of the Worlds (1953)

4 So this is man's future: To bask in the sunlight, bathe in the clear streams and eat the fruits of the earth with all knowledge of work and hardship forgotten.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

5 You know, in my time, a berry that size would've been big news all over the civilized world.

Quote from The Time Machine (1960)

6 When I speak of time, gentlemen, I'm referring to the fourth dimension.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

7 Why is it that we usually ignore the forth dimension? Because we have no freedom of movement within it. You see, we can move in the other three: Up, down, forward, sideways, backward, but when it comes to time, we are prisoners.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

8 All right, if you want to know the truth, I don't much care for the time I was born into. It seems people aren't dying fast enough these days. They call upon science to invent new, more efficient weapons to depopulate the earth.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

9 It was disconcerting to see the sun arc in less than a minute. To see a snail race by.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

10 Do you realize there were about 20 of your friends watching you drown? Not one of them so much as lifted a finger to save you.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

37 Quotes by H.G. Wells (Sound Clips)

1 A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams. For what? So you can swim and dance and play!

2 Precedent in our own evolution makes it possible that they have more than one brain. -You mean two? Three?

3 The Martians can conquer the Earth in six days. -The same number of days it took to create it.

4 So this is man's future: To bask in the sunlight, bathe in the clear streams and eat the fruits of the earth with all knowledge of work and hardship forgotten.

5 You know, in my time, a berry that size would've been big news all over the civilized world.

6 When I speak of time, gentlemen, I'm referring to the fourth dimension.

7 Why is it that we usually ignore the forth dimension? Because we have no freedom of movement within it. You see, we can move in the other three: Up, down, forward, sideways, backward, but when it comes to time, we are prisoners.

8 All right, if you want to know the truth, I don't much care for the time I was born into. It seems people aren't dying fast enough these days. They call upon science to invent new, more efficient weapons to depopulate the earth.

9 It was disconcerting to see the sun arc in less than a minute. To see a snail race by.

10 Do you realize there were about 20 of your friends watching you drown? Not one of them so much as lifted a finger to save you.

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