HG Wells Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying.
-- HG Wells

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
-- HG Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- HG Wells

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
-- HG Wells

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
-- HG Wells

And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.
-- HG Wells

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
-- HG Wells

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
-- HG Wells