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