"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
— H.G. Wells

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."
— H.G. Wells

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
— H.G. Wells

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
— H.G. Wells

"If we don't end war, war will end us."
— H.G. Wells

"Advertising is legalized lying."
— H.G. Wells

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
— H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds)

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
— H.G. Wells

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"Civilization is a race between disaster and education."
— H.G. Wells

"What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?"
— H.G. Wells

"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."
— H.G. Wells

"We look back through countless millions of years and see the great will to live struggling out of the intertidal slime, struggling from shape to shape and from power to power, crawling and then walking confidently upon the land, struggling generation after generation to master the air, creeping down the darkness of the deep; we see it turn upon itself in rage and hunger and reshape itself anew, we watch it draw nearer and more akin to us, expanding, elaborating itself, pursuing its relentless inconceivable purpose, until at last it reaches us and its being beats through our brains and arteries...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 that the human mind has accomplished is but the dream before the awakening; out of our lineage, minds will spring that will reach back to us in our littleness to know us better than we know ourselves. A day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool, and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars."
— H.G. Wells

"Tell the truth and read story books;it will take u to the magical moment in a glory night."
— H.G. Wells

"It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible."
— H.G. Wells

"We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race."
— H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds)

"Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have."
— H.G. Wells

"There's truths you have to grow into."
— H.G. Wells (Love and Mr. Lewisham)

""What really matters is what you do with what you have.""
— H.G. Wells

"They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions."
— H.G. Wells (War of the Worlds)

"Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?"
— H.G. Wells

"Night, the mother of fear and mystery,
was coming upon me."
— H.G. Wells

"This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft."
— H.G. Wells

"Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion."
— H.G. Wells

"A series of prohibitions called the Law - I had already heard them recited - battled in their minds with the deep-seated, ever-rebellious cravings of their animal natures. This Law they were perpetually repeating, I found, and - perpetually breaking."
— H.G. Wells

"Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me."
— H.G. Wells

"I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd."
— H.G. Wells

"Our true nationality is mankind."
— H.G. Wells

"Our true nationality is mankind. "
— H.G. Wells

"Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation."
— H.G. Wells (Kipps)

"The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"if we dont end war it will end us"
— H.G. Wells

"Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end."
— H.G. Wells (The Invisible Man)

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own."
— H.G. Wells

"To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like that is hopeless. That way lies monomania. Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"When afterwards I tried to tell my aunt, she punished me again for my wicked persistence. Then, as I said, everyone was forbidden to listen to me, to hear a word about it. Even my fairy-tale books were taken away from me for a time - because I was too 'imaginative'. Eh! Yes, they did that! My father belonged to the old school.... And my story was driven back upon myself. I whispered it to my pillow - my pillow that was often damp and salt to my whispering lips with childish tears. And I added always to my official and less fervent prayers this one heartfelt request: 'Please God I may dream of the garden. O! take me back to my garden.'"
— H.G. Wells (The Door in the Wall)

"No passion on earth, neither love or hate, is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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— H.G. Wells

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
— H.G. Wells

"Only people who are well off can be - complex."
— H.G. Wells (Love and Mr. Lewisham)

"At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
— H.G. Wells

"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."
— H.G. Wells

"We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear."
— H.G. Wells (The War of the Worlds)

""I wonder," said Graham.
Ostrog stared.
"Must the world go this way?" said Graham, with his emotions at the speaking point. "Must it indeed
go in this way? Have all our hopes been vain?"
"What do you mean?" said Ostrog. "Hopes?"
"I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny!"
"Well, — but you are the chief tyrant."
Graham shook his head."
— H.G. Wells (When the Sleeper Wakes)

"Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"For after the Battle comes quiet."
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)

"Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!"
— H.G. Wells (The Time Machine)