649 Quotes by H. G. Wells

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.