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."

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“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

All Quotes by H. G. Wells

“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

— H. G. Wells

Jealousy

“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”

— H. G. Wells

War

“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

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

— H. G. Wells

War

“Cynicism is humor in ill health.”

— H. G. Wells

Health

“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

“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 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

“Advertising is legalized lying.”

— H. G. Wells

Legal

“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

Great

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

— H. G. Wells

History

“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.”

— H. G. Wells

Death

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

— H. G. Wells

Communication

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”

— H. G. Wells

Beauty

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

— H. G. Wells

Sad

“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

“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

“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

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

— H. G. Wells

Funny

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

— H. G. Wells

Education