Quotes by H. G. Wells

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.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.

Advertising is legalized lying.

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.