H. G. Wells Quotes

They despite and hate the government more and more, but they don't know how to set about changing it...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the...

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

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

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

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

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

The future is the shape of things to come.

To be honest one must be inconsistent.

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish dange...

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c...

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning an...

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself again...

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of th...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have...

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth centur...

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may n...

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and mo...

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If...

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New...

They did not think politics was a great constructive process, they thought it was a kind of dog-figh...

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question ari...

Oh, Lord! don't I know it's difficult! ... Don't I know that perhaps it's impossible! But it's the o...

A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health...

You see," I said, "I'm a socialist. I don't think this world was made for a small minority to dance ...

Advertising is legalized lying.

I suppose a suicide who holds a pistol to his skull feels much the same wonder at what will come nex...

There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite the other sort from Millie's r...

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to p...

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

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the ...

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beaut...

Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as livi...

Eight-and-twenty years,' said I, 'I have lived, and never a ghost have I seen as yet.'The old woman ...

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The brown and charred rags that hung from the sides of it, I presently recognized as the decaying ve...

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension w...

Kemp: I demonstrated conclusively this morning that invisibility--I.M: Never mind what YOU'VE DEMONS...

It was a red-flannel chest-protector, one of those large quasi-hygienic objects that with pills and ...

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shif...

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge tha...

He has made the cat his own. He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats...

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pess...

Our true nationality is mankind.

The new mathematics is a sort of supplement to language, affording a means of thought about form and...

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it is...

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

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of th...

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different me...

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Their bodies lay flatly on the rocks, and their eyes regarded him with evil interest: but it does no...

In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the tho...

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face t...

The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling ...

An idiot child screaming in a hospital." (on George Bernard Shaw)

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protectio...

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that i...

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric k...

A boy is a creature of odd feelings.

You've made a beast of yourself,- to the beasts you may go.

We are but phantoms, and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw tha...

It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

But in truth, a general prohibition in a state may increase the sum of liberty, and a general permis...

Modern war, modern international hostility is, I believe, possible only through the stupid illiterac...

It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a litt...

[A]fter all it was true that a girl does not go alone in the world unchallenged, nor ever has gone f...

I think that it [the Church] stands for everything most hostile to the mental emancipation and stimu...

Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our...

The most evil institution in the world is the Roman Catholic Church.

He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed t...

It was in a swampy village on the lagoon river behind the Turner Peninsula that Pollock's first enco...

He beheld in swift succession the incidents in the brief tale of his experience. His wretched home, ...

In times of long established peace, when the tradition of generations has established the illusion o...

There's truths you have to grow into.

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.

You can't see beauty with miserable eyes.

As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleepin...

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to...

Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then...Governments and powers...