"The Time Machine" Quotes

The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

At first I scarce thought of stopping, scarce thought of anything but these new sensations.

I saw a number of tall spikes of strange white flowers, measuring a foot perhaps across the spread of the waxen petals.

We should have to develop him and I did not want to be complicated.

The only thing that could have successfully competed with the force of the Martians, at this time, would have been the news.

At first, proceeding from the problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual widening of the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position.

I do not know how long I sat peering into the black depths.

It's only a model.

I panted, I gasped for breath.

He was the only man of the party who did not seem to me to be a fool.