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H. G. Wells Quotes


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.

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

H. G. Wells
Advertising is legalized lying.

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

H. G. Wells
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

H. G. Wells
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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

H. G. Wells
Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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

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

H. G. Wells
History is a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

H. G. Wells
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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

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

H. G. Wells
If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

H. G. Wells
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

H. G. Wells