Men Quotes by H. G. Wells

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

— H. G. Wells

Chess is a curse upon a man.

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

— H. G. Wells

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

— H. G. Wells

Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.

— H. G. Wells

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

— H. G. Wells

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

— H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

— H. G. Wells

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

— H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

— H. G. Wells

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

— H. G. Wells

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we…

— H. G. Wells

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was…

— H. G. Wells

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it…

— 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…

— H. G. Wells

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able…

— 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…

— H. G. Wells

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and…

— H. G. Wells

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies…

— H. G. Wells

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.…

— H. G. Wells

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise…

— H. G. Wells

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,…

— H. G. Wells

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances…

— H. G. Wells

If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,…

— H. G. Wells

So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…

— H. G. Wells

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while…

— 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…

— 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…

— H. G. Wells

Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…

— H. G. Wells

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in…

— H. G. Wells

The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their…

— H. G. Wells

Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and…

— 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…

— H. G. Wells

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which…

— H. G. Wells

If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as…

— H. G. Wells

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

— H. G. Wells

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a…

— H. G. Wells