If we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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. WELLSNo passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
H. G. WELLSIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. WELLSAdvertising is legalized lying.
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. 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. WELLS