649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

A young mistress is better than an old master.

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

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.

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.

I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?