--- title: "16 Ifs Quotes By H. G. Wells" description: "16 Ifs quotes by H. G. Wells. Plus more from H. G. Wells and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/h-g-wells-1122_calamity_what-good-is-religion-if-it-collapses-un_190355.png" --- > [What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/what-good-is-religion-if-it-collapses-under-calamity/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05b/h-g-wells-1122_calamity_what-good-is-religion-if-it-collapses-un_190355.png) > [If the world does not please you, you can change it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-the-world-does-not-please-you-you-can-change-it/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae9/h-g-wells-1122_change_if-the-world-does-not-please-you-you-can_1265521.png) > [If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-there-is-no-god-nothing-matters-if-there-is-a-god-nothing-else/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bfe/h-g-wells-1122_god_if-there-is-no-god-nothing-matters-if-th_2717499.png) > [If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-you-do-not-want-to-explore-an-egoism-you-should-not-read/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/h-g-wells-1122_autobiography_if-you-do-not-want-to-explore-an-egoism_2873904.png) > [The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-true-sweetness-of-chess-if-it-ever-can-be-sweet-is-to-see-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27d/h-g-wells-1122_chess_the-true-sweetness-of-chess-if-it-ever-c_90825.png) > [If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-your-life-doesn-t-end-in-failure-you-haven-t-reached-high-enough/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d4/h-g-wells-1122_achieve_if-your-life-doesn-t-end-in-failure-you_2206180.png) > [If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-we-do-not-end-war-war-will-end-us-everybody-says-that-millions-of/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d58/h-g-wells-1122_believe_if-we-do-not-end-war-war-will-end-us-eve_933217.png) > [Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/our-business-here-is-to-be-utopian-to-make-vivid-and-credible-if-we/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/h-g-wells-1122_business_our-business-here-is-to-be-utopian-to-ma_1682735.png) > [The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-brain-upon-which-my-experiences-have-been-written-is-not-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9a/h-g-wells-1122_brain_the-brain-upon-which-my-experiences-have_377796.png) > [There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/there-is-no-upper-limit-to-what-individuals-are-capable-of-doing-with/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/h-g-wells-1122_age_there-is-no-upper-limit-to-what-individu_1987413.jpg) > [ If Max \[Aitken\] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-max-aitken-gets-to-heaven-he-won-t-last-long-he-will-be-chucked/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c44/h-g-wells-1122_company_if-max-aitken-gets-to-heaven-he-won-t-la_2785657.png) > [Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/since-the-passing-of-victoria-the-great-there-had-been-an/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/h-g-wells-1122_blow_since-the-passing-of-victoria-the-great_1392593.jpg) > [ I doubt if these two fine, active minds \[President and Mrs. Roosevelt\] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/i-doubt-if-these-two-fine-active-minds-president-and-mrs-roosevelt/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/551/h-g-wells-1122_active_i-doubt-if-these-two-fine-active-minds-p_2935991.jpg) > [If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-all-the-animals-and-man-had-been-evolved-in-this-ascendant-manner/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ac/h-g-wells-1122_animal_if-all-the-animals-and-man-had-been-evol_2416720.jpg) > [If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-i-am-recalling-an-incident-very-vividly-i-go-back-to-the-instant/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2bf/h-g-wells-1122_able_if-i-am-recalling-an-incident-very-vivid_1651468.png) > [If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/if-we-suppose-a-sufficient-righteousness-and-intelligence-in-men-to/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/687/h-g-wells-1122_bases_if-we-suppose-a-sufficient-righteousness_287637.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by H. G. Wells > [... life falls into place only with God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/life-falls-into-place-only-with-god/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/fools-make-researches-and-wise-men-exploit-them-that-is-our-earthly/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-true-sweetness-of-chess-if-it-ever-can-be-sweet-is-to-see-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-priest-is-a-man-vowed-trained-and-consecrated-a-man-belonging-to-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-man-who-raises-a-fist-has-run-out-of-ideas/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-choice-is-the-universe-or-nothing/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-crisis-the-great-depression-discovered-a-great-man-in-franklin/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/non-violence-is-the-policy-of-the-vegetable-kingdom/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/for-all-my-desire-to-be-interesting-i-have-to-confess-that-for-most/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/the-jews-looked-for-a-special-savior-a-messiah-who-was-to-redeem/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/and-i-have-by-me-for-my-comfort-two-strange-white-flowers-shrivelled/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/a-novel-by-henry-james-is-like-a-church-lit-but-without-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/in-england-we-have-come-to-rely-upon-a-comfortable-time-lag-of-fifty/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [We must end war before war ends us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/we-must-end-war-before-war-ends-us/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) > [What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/what-good-is-religion-if-it-collapses-under-calamity/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/h-g-wells/#itemlist", "name": "16 Ifs Quotes By H. G. Wells", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "H. G. 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