Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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