H. G. Wells

... 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…

— 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…

— 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

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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

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

— H. G. Wells

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the…

— H. G. Wells

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

— H. G. Wells

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who…

— H. G. Wells

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

— 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

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and…

— H. G. Wells

If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will…

— H. G. Wells

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of…

— H. G. Wells

There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery…

— H. G. Wells