[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last…

... life falls into place only with God.

— H. G. Wells

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

— H. G. Wells

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the…

— H. G. Wells

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

— H. G. Wells

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

— H. G. Wells

The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of…

— H. G. Wells

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

— H. G. Wells

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

— H. G. Wells

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

— H. G. Wells

“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind…

— H. G. Wells

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on…

— 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…

— H. G. Wells

We must end war before war ends us.

— H. G. Wells

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

— H. G. Wells