H G Wells Quotes

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H G Wells

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H G Wells

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law. H G Wells

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. H G Wells

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

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. H G Wells

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. H G Wells