H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

26 quotes

As an English writer, H. G. Wells earned a lasting place in the canon of memorable quotations. Whether reflecting on War or Time, H. G. Wells brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Our collection holds 35 quotes from H. G. Wells, each offering a different angle on War, Time, History, Education, and Nature. As H. G. Wells put it: "Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

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

— H. G. Wells

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All Quotes by H. G. Wells

“Advertising is legalized lying.”

— H. G. Wells

Legal

“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

Failure

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

— H. G. Wells

Best

“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”

— H. G. Wells

Education

“The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”

— H. G. Wells

Success

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

— H. G. Wells

Time

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

— H. G. Wells

Jealousy

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

— H. G. Wells

Education

“The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.”

— H. G. Wells

Teacher

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

— H. G. Wells

Nature

“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

Men

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

— H. G. Wells

Knowledge

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

— H. G. Wells

Sad

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

— H. G. Wells

Funny

“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”

— H. G. Wells

History

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

— H. G. Wells

Communication

“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

Imagination

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

— H. G. Wells

Education

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

— H. G. Wells

Health

“Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.”

— H. G. Wells

Nature