Famous Quotes / H. G. Wells
34 Quotations by H. G. Wells
- 1. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension ...
- 2. Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- 3. Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
- 4. Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the c ...
- 5. Every dogma must have its day.
- 6. Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- 7. Go away. I'm all right.
- 8. History is a race between education and catastrophe.
- 9. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- 10. I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
- 11. If we don't end war, war will end us.
- 12. In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening ...
- 13. It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops ev ...
- 14. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- 15. No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
- 16. Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict ...
- 17. Religion is pickled God.
- 18. Security puts a premium on feebleness.
- 19. She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm ...
- 20. She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up ...