Quotes by H. G. Wells

About H. G. Wells:

Herbert George Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels, and Wells is called the father of science fiction, along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science fiction works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898).
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H. G. Wells

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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 though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

H. G. Wells

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

H. G. Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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 sea.

H. G. Wells

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

H. G. Wells

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

H. G. Wells

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

H. G. Wells

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

H. G. Wells

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

H. G. Wells

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

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H. G. Wells

Author Bio

  • NameH. G. Wells
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesWells, Herbert George; Reginald Bliss; Herbert George Wells
  • BornSeptember 21, 1866
  • DiedAugust 13, 1946
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionScience Fiction Writer; Historian; Novelist; Journalist; Short Story Writer
  • WorksThe Outline Of History; The Time Machine; The Invisible Man; The Island Of Doctor Moreau; The War Of The Worlds; The First Men In The Moon; The Shape Of Things To Come; Marriage