Inspirational Quotes by H. G. Wells (English Novelist, Historian)

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Patriotism

Cynicism is humor in ill health.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Cynicism

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Learning

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Acceptance, Nature, Change

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
Topics: Appearance

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Learning

When a man realizes his littleness,
his greatness can appear.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Self-Knowledge

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Time, Time Management

Moral indignation is just jealousy with a halo around it.
—H. G. Wells

Looking through the telescope, one saw a circle of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in the field. It seemed such a little thing, so bright and small and still, faintly marked with transverse stripes, and slightly flattened from the perfect round. But so little it was, so silvery warm.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: The Universe

Go away…I’m alright.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Famous Last Words, Last Words

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Past, Reflection

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Change, Forgiveness, Consistency

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Evolution

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
Topics: Correction, Reform

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
Topics: Humankind, Humanity

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
—H. G. Wells

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Ambition, Getting Ahead

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Economy, Economics

The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Tomorrow, Crises, Time, The Future, Resilience, Jokes

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Religion

Advertising is legalized lying.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Media, Advertising

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
—H. G. Wells

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Adversity

Hunger makes a fool of a man.
—H. G. Wells

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
—H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Racism, Nationalism, Race

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Morals, Hypocrisy, Morality

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Suffering

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
—H. G. Wells
Topics: Goodness

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