Author: H. G. Wells

Cites

• Johannes Kepler (1)
  • IN: War of the Worlds (None) Fiction, Science-Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: But who shall dwell in these Worlds if they be inhabited?... Are we or they Lords of the World?... And how are all things made for man?
    FROM: The Anatomy of Melancholy, (1621), Book, Germany
• Lucian (1)
  • IN: The First Men in the Moon (1901) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Three thousand stadia from the earth to the moon ... Marvel not, my comrade, if I appear talking to you on super-terrestrial and aerial topics. The long and the short of the matter is that I am running over the order of a Journey I have lately made.
    FROM: Icaromenippus, (None), NULL, Turkey
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: [Illustration:] "Why on earth did you put my roses here?" he asked.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Kepler (1)
  • IN: The War of the Worlds (1898) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: ‘But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And how are all things made for man?’
    FROM: quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy, (None), NULL, NULL
• Member of the aristocracy (1)
  • IN: Kipps (1905) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Those individuals who have led secluded or isolated lives, or have hitherto moved in other spheres than those wherein well-bred people move, will gather all the information necessary from these pages to render them thoroughly conversant with the manners and amenities of society.
    FROM: "Manners and rules of good society", (1879), Book, UK
• Bysshe Shelley, Percy (1)
  • IN: In the Days of the Comet (1906) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter skin outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
    FROM: Hellas, (1822), Poem, UK

Cited by

• David Lodge (1)
  • IN: A Man of Parts (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: He could imagine as existing, as waiting for him, he knew not where, a completeness of understanding, a perfection of response, that would reach all the gamut of his feelings and sensations from the most poetical to the most entirely physical, a beauty of relationship so transfiguring that not only would she—it went without saying that this completion was a woman—be perfectly beautiful in its light but, what was manifestly more incredible, that he too would be perfectly beautiful and quite at his ease.... In her presence there could be no self-reproaches, no lapses, no limitations, nothing but happiness and the happiest activities.... To such a persuasion half the imaginative people in the world succumb as readily and naturally as ducklings take to water. They do not doubt its truth any more than a thirsty camel doubts that presently it will come to a spring. This persuasion is as foolish as though a camel hoped that some day it would drink from such a spring that it would never thirst again.
    FROM: Mr Britling Sees It Through, (1916), Novel, UK
• Robert Drewe (1)
  • IN: Montebello (2012) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: But the islanders, seeing I was really adrift, took pity on me.
    FROM: The Island of Dr. Moreau, (1896), NULL, UK
• Matt Whyman (1)
  • IN: Bad Apple (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back changed!
    FROM: The Time Machine, (1895), Novel, UK
• David Baldacci (2)
  • IN: The Keeper (2015) Fiction, Young Adult, American
    EPIGRAPH: The past is but the past of a beginning.
    FROM: The Discovery of the Future, (1901), NULL, UK
• Jeffery Deaver (1)
  • IN: The Skin Collector (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. They were animals — humanised animals — triumphs of vivisection.
    FROM: The Island of Doctor Moreau, (1896), Novel, UK
• Robert Sawyer (1)
  • IN: On the Surface (None) Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks. Suppressing a strong inclination to laugh I stepped through the bronze frame and up to the Time Machine. I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned. I have suspected since that the Morlocks had even partially taken it to pieces while trying in their dim way to grasp its purpose.
    FROM: The Time Machine, (1895), Novel, UK
• M.J Rose (1)
  • IN: The Collector of Dying Breaths (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You may think me superstitious, if you will, and foolish; but indeed, I am more than half convinced that he had, in truth, an abnormal gift, and a sense, something-I know not what-that in the guise of wall and door offered him an outlet, a secret and peculiar passage of escape into another and altogether more beautiful world.
    FROM: The Door in the Wall, (1911), Novel, UK
• James Rollins (1)
  • IN: Altar Of Eden (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
    FROM: The Island of Doctor Moreau, (1896), Novel, UK
• Charlie Stross (1)
  • IN: The Nightmare Stacks (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs... No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger... Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beats that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
    FROM: The War of the Worlds, (1550), Novel, UK
• Dean Koontz (1)
  • IN: Watchers (1987) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
    FROM: The Discovery of the Future, (1902), Lecture, UK
• John Mortimer (3)
  • IN: Rumpole Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
    FROM: Love and Mr Lewisham, (1900), Novel, UK
  • IN: The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
    FROM: 1900, (1900), Novel, UK
  • IN: Misbehaves (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.
    FROM: Love and My Lewisham, (1899), Novel, UK
• Darragh McKeon (1)
  • IN: All that is Solid Melts into Air (2014) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: To my mind radioactivity is a real disease of matter. Moreover it is a contagious disease. It spreads. You bring those debased and crumbling atoms near others and those too presently catch the trick of swinging themselves out of coherent existence. It is in matter exactly what the decay of our old culture is in society, a loss of traditions and distinctions and assured reactions.
    FROM: Tono-Bungay, (1909), Novel, UK
• William Gibson (1)
  • IN: The Peripheral (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling.
    FROM: The Grey Man (deleted section of text from "The Time Machine," published elsewhere), (1895), Other?, UK
• K.W. Jeter (1)
  • IN: Morlock Night (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "… and another – a quiet, shy man with a beard – whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
    FROM: The Time Machine, (1895), Novel, UK
• William Golding (1)
  • IN: The Inheritors (1955) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ...We know very little of the appearance of the Neanderthal man, but this... seems to suggest an extreme hairiness, an ugliness, or a repulsive strangeness in his appearance over and above his low forehead, his beetle brows, his ape neck, and his inferior stature...Says Sir Harry Johnston, in a survey of the rise of modern man in this Views and Reviews: 'The dim racial remembrance of such gorilla-like monsters, with cunning brains, shambling gait, hairy bodies, strong teeth, and possibly cannibalistic tendencies, may be the germ of the ogre in folklore...'
    FROM: Outline of History, (1920), Short story, UK
• Ernest Cline (1)
  • IN: Armada (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If we don't end war, war will end us.
    FROM: Things to Come, (1936), Film, UK