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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Our true nationality is mankind.

H. G. Wells

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but wha...

H. G. Wells

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

H. G. Wells

The past is but the past of a beginning.

H. G. Wells

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

H. G. Wells

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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

H. G. Wells

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

H. G. Wells

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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