Quotes by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells

British-born American author

Lived from: 1866 - 1946

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 21 september 1866 Died: 13 august 1946

  • One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
  • 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.
  • I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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  • One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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  • Advertising is legalized lying.
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  • Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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  • Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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  • Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
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  • Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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  • Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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  • He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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  • History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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  • Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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  • Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
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  • I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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  • It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
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  • 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.
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  • Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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  • Our true nationality is mankind.
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  • The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
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  • The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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  • The 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from H.G. Wells?

The two most famous quotes from H.G. Wells are:

  • "One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
  • "Advertising is legalized lying."

When did H.G. Wells live?

H.G. Wells was born in 1866 and died in the year 1946.