The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
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. WELLSWhile 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.
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
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. 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. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLS