The Time Machine (1960) Quotes with Sound Clips

Sound clips of the most memorable quotes from The Time Machine (1960 film, based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells).

Actors: Rod Taylor (H. George Wells), Alan Young (David Filby / James Filby)

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1 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.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

2 The one characteristic which distinguished man from the animal kingdom was the spirit of self-sacrifice. And you have that quality.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

3 I did it to save your life. That doesn't seem to mean much to you or anybody else around here. -It doesn't.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

4 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.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

5 Well, the past, man's past, is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments when a few voices have spoken up and these rare moments have made the history of man, man's past, a glorious thing.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

6 I could let them know about the sorrow and the happiness that the future has in store for them. Maybe they could learn from it. Or could they?

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

7 The atmosphere has become so polluted with deadly germs that it can no longer be breathed.

— (Paul Frees)

8 Then mother earth, aroused by man's violence, responded with volcanic violence of her own.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

9 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.

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

10 You! All of you! I'm going back to my own time! I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle, the hopeless future. But at least I could die among men!

— H. George Wells (Rod Taylor)

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