Quotes from The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells
1866–1946 England
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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
The Invisible Man (1897)
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
The Invisible Man (1897)
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
The Invisible Man (1897)
I was invisible, and I was only just beginning to realise the extraordinary advantage my invisibility gave me. My head was already teeming with plans of all the wild and wonderful things I had now impunity to do.
The Invisible Man (1897)
My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
The Invisible Man (1897)