649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.