Top 54 H. G. Wells Quotes on Life

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

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.