H. G. Wells Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Failure, Goal

• 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

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• 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

  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

  H. G. Wells

  Teacher, Jesus, Retirement

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.154, Xist Publishing

• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

  H. G. Wells

  Success, Hands, Done

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.25, Penguin UK

• 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.

  H. G. Wells

  Nature, Children, Animal

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.238, Broadview Press

• 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

  Time, Peace, War

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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

  H. G. Wells

  Successful, Atheism, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.68, H. G. Wells

• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  H. G. Wells

  Numbers, People, Phrases

  HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.4, Monkfish Book Publishing

• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  H. G. Wells

  Sea, Imagination, Submarines

• 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

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

• 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

  Engineering, Bridges, Iron

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.79, H. G. Wells

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

  H. G. Wells

  Writing, Ambition, Literature

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Herbert George Wells, Alan James Mayne, H.G. Wells Society (1994). “World brain”

• The past is but the past of a beginning.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Literature

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  H. G. Wells

  Our World, Evil, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.57, H. G. Wells

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