649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture....

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

Go away... I'm alright.