Quotes by H. G. Wells

Advertising is legalized lying.

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.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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.

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

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

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.

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.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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