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Quotes from H. G. Wells

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
~ H. G. Wells
A time will come when a politician who has wilfully 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 mens lives should not stake their own.
~ H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
~ 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
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
~ H. G. Wells
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
~ H. G. Wells
Go away...I'm alright.
~ H. G. Wells
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
~ H. G. Wells
Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom
~ H. G. Wells
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
~ H. G. Wells
The past is but the past of a beginning.
~ H. G. Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ H. G. Wells
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
~ H. G. Wells
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
~ H. G. Wells
There are no social differences - till women come in.
~ 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
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
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
~ H. G. Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ H. G. Wells
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.
~ H. G. Wells
An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
~ H. G. Wells
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
~ H. G. Wells
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
~ H. G. Wells
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.
~ H. G. Wells