649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

Ignorance is not an extension of time.

You see,” I said, “I’m a socialist. I don’t think this world was made for a small minority to dance on the faces of everyone else.

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

Something – exactly like a finger and thumb it felt – nipped my nose.

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.

They haven’t any spirit in them – no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

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.

All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.

And through it all, this destiny was before me,” he said; “this vast inheritance of which I did not dream.