H. G. Wells

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

— H. G. Wells

... life falls into place only with God.

— H. G. Wells

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

— H. G. Wells

If we don't end war, war will end us.

— H. G. Wells

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

— H. G. Wells

We must end war before war ends us.

— H. G. Wells

Advertising is legalized lying.

— H. G. Wells

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

— 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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture…

— H. G. Wells

There are no social differences - till women come in.

— 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

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

— H. G. Wells

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

— H. G. Wells

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

— 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

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

— H. G. Wells

“His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating.”

— H. G. Wells

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…

— H. G. Wells

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

— H. G. Wells

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation…

— 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

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest,…

— H. G. Wells

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as…

— H. G. Wells

Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is…

— H. G. Wells

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not…

— H. G. Wells

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they…

— H. G. Wells

We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind;…

— H. G. Wells

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness… Not one is altogether noble nor…

— H. G. Wells

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger and trouble… Nature never appeals…

— H. G. Wells

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable…

— H. G. Wells

“For many years the price of coal and every form of liquid fuel had been clambering to levels that made even the…

— 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

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

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

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and…

— 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

The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped…

— H. G. Wells

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems…

— H. G. Wells