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Quotes from H. G. Wells

Advertising is legalized lying.
~ H. G. Wells
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
~ H. G. Wells
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
~ H. G. Wells
Hunger makes a fool of a man.
~ H. G. Wells
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
~ H. G. Wells
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
~ H. G. Wells
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
~ H. G. Wells
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
~ H. G. Wells
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
~ H. G. Wells
If we do not end war — war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
~ H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H. G. Wells
The Shape of Things to Come.
~ H. G. Wells
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....
~ H. G. Wells
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
~ H. G. Wells
At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.
~ H. G. Wells
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
~ 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
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
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
~ H. G. Wells
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
~ H. G. Wells
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
~ H. G. Wells
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
If we don't end war, war will end us.
~ H. G. Wells
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