H G Wells quotes

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.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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

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

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.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

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

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

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.

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

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.

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.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.