I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Imagination Quotes

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by...

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by...

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history...