1866-1946, British-born American Author
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
H.G. Wells – [Change]
Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G. Wells – [Advertising]
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H.G. Wells – [Evolution]
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 – [Crime and Criminals]
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
H.G. Wells – [Bicycles]
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H.G. Wells – [Cynics and Cynicism]
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
H.G. Wells – [Research]
Go away, I'm all right!
H.G. Wells – [Solitude]
Go away…I'm alright.
H.G. Wells – [Famous Last Words]
He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
H.G. Wells – [Patriotism]
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells – [History and Historians]
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells – [History and Historians]
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H.G. Wells – [History and Historians]
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
H.G. Wells – [Adversity]
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H.G. Wells – [Time and Time Management]
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.
H.G. Wells – [Reform]
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
H.G. Wells – [Future]
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.
H.G. Wells – [Humankind]
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. Wells – [Morality]
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H.G. Wells – [Goodness]