Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLSIn 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. WELLSMan 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. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSAdvertising is legalized lying.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. WELLSThere’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. WELLSThe 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.
H. G. WELLSNothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. WELLSOnce 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.
H. G. WELLSWe are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSSome 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