H. G. Wells Quotes
A British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Time Machine; also for Kipps, The History of Mr. Polly and other social satires.
(1866 - 1946)
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
[Acceptance]
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
[Begin]
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
[Cynicism]
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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First we shall want the pupil to understand, speak, read, and write his mother tongue well.
[Education]
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He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
[History]
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
[History]
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Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
[Suffering]
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
[Time]
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