649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.