Quotes by H. G. Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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

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