H. G. Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

— H. G. Wells

The War That Will End War.

— H. G. Wells

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

— H. G. Wells

Ignorance is not an extension of time

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

... life falls into place only with God.

— H. G. Wells

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

— H. G. Wells

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

— H. G. Wells

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

— H. G. Wells

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

— H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— H. G. Wells

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

— H. G. Wells

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

— H. G. Wells

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

— H. G. Wells

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy…

— H. G. Wells

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at…

— H. G. Wells

“[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase…

— H. G. Wells

The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…

— H. G. Wells

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they…

— H. G. Wells

This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under…

— 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

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world…

— H. G. Wells

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the…

— H. G. Wells

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some…

— H. G. Wells

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long…

— 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

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

— 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

“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