He was the English author who began his career as a novelist with a popular sequence of science fiction that remains the most familiar part of his work. He later wrote realistic novels and novels of ideas. He achieved fame with scientific fantasies such as The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1898), and wrote a range of comic social novels which proved highly popular. H.G. Wells was a very brave man. He was profoundly disturbed by the rising of Nazi Germany and fascism in Italy. His critical writings on aggressive Imperial Germany coupled with his violent attacks on Adolf Hitler and his collaborators.
His “anti-German” books were burned by Goebbels during the infamous book bonfires at German universities.
The name “H.G. Wells” appeared very near the top of a list compiled by the SS/SD command staff of those intellectuals and politicians slated for immediate liquidation upon the invasion of Britain by the Nazis. (1866 – 1946)
– Herbert George Wells Quotes –
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
~ Herbert George Wells
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
~ Herbert George Wells
Advertising is legalized lying.
~ Herbert George Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~ Herbert George Wells
Our true nationality is mankind.
~ Herbert George Wells
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
~ Herbert George Wells
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
~ Herbert George Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ Herbert George Wells
There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose.
~ Herbert George Wells
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
~ Herbert George Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
~ Herbert George Wells
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
~ Herbert George Wells
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
~ Herbert George Wells
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
~ Herbert George Wells
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
~ Herbert George Wells
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
~ Herbert George Wells
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
~ Herbert George Wells
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
~ Herbert George Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
~ Herbert George Wells
Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
~ Herbert George Wells
Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
~ Herbert George Wells
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
~ Herbert George Wells
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
~ Herbert George Wells
The past is but the past of a beginning.
~ Herbert George Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
~ Herbert George Wells
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
~ Herbert George Wells
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
~ Herbert George Wells
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
~ Herbert George Wells
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
~ Herbert George Wells
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
~ Herbert George Wells
If we don’t end war, war will end us.
~ Herbert George Wells
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
~ Herbert George Wells
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
~ Herbert George Wells
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.
~ Herbert George Wells
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
~ Herbert George Wells
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
~ Herbert George Wells
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
~ Herbert George Wells
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
~ Herbert George Wells
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
~ Herbert George Wells
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
~ Herbert George Wells
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
~ Herbert George Wells
Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?
~ Herbert George Wells
