Famous Quotes by H.G. (Herbert George) Wells

  • I had rather be called a journalist than an artist. More
  • Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself... More
  • Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. More
  • Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals... More
  • The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere,... More
  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of... More
  • One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. More
  • Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. More
  • There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and... More
  • If we don’t end war, war will end us. More
  • The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. More
  • He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. More
  • There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t... More
  • Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the... More
  • Rest enough for the individual man. Too much and too soon and we call it death. But for Man no... More
  • The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of... More
  • This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and... More
  • There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your... More
  • I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You... More
  • You’ve got the subtlety of a bullfrog. More
  • You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do. More
  • The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too... More
  • It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all... More
  • Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum. More
  • Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. More
  • In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century... More

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