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H. G. Wells Quotes
H. G. Wells Quotes
H. G. Wells
English
Author
Born:
Sep 21
,
1866
Died:
Aug 13
,
1946
Beginning
Between
History
Made
Man
World
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells
Sad
Wise
Sorry
Affliction
Make
Sober
Us
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells
Future
Time
Bicycle
Every
Despair
Every Time
I See
See
Adult
Longer
Human
Race
Human Race
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Jealousy
Moral
Indignation
Halo
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells
Heart
Beauty
Beholder
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells
Our
True
Nationality
Mankind
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells
War
Time
Will
Made
Men
Own
Politician
Those
Promoted
Come
Dock
Sure
Surer
Private
Than
Stake
Much
Gamble
Should
Reasonable
Who
International
Lives
Homicide
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
Education
History
More
More And More
Catastrophe
Between
Becomes
Human
Race
Human History
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells
Legal
Lying
Advertising
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. Wells
You
Matters
Really
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells
Fire
Vanish
Lead
Leaders
Lit
As Far As
Ashes
Far
Then
Should
Choke
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
You
Man
World
Will
Though
Rate
Through
Troubles
He
Cheerful
Cheerfulness
Sure
Were
Been
End
Behave
Any
Getting
Hold
While
Justified
Your
Reasonable
Chance
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells
Past
Beginning
Has-Been
Dawn
Been
Twilight
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells
Failure
Crime
Community
State
Bad
End
In The End
Measure
Lives
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. Wells
Path
Least
Loser
Resistance
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells
Socialism
Achieve
Word
Experiment
Extraordinarily
Else
Collapse
Parallel
Russian
Attempt
New
Policies
Call
New Deal
Deal
Shirk
America
American
Social
Plainly
Working
Avert
Successive
Plans
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells
Today
Tomorrow
Joke
Crisis
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells
Broken
Path
Strewn
Must
Advancement
Friendships
Social
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. Wells
People
Some People
Three
Trouble
Kinds
Some
Bear
Had
Expect
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.
H. G. Wells
Death
You
Suffering
Made
Revolution
Nothing
Our
Danger
Worthwhile
Abolish
Purpose
Simply
Wrong
Suffer
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
Perception
Intervening
Ought
Something
Rely
Attempt
Between
Come
Comfortable
Years
Done
Century
Fifty
England
Serious
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells
Journalist
Rather
Had
Than
Artist
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells
Beginning
Individuals
Since
Accumulate
Experiments
Successful
Species
Biologically
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