Quote

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

H. G. Wells

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

H. G. Wells
Age: 79 †
Born: 1866
Born: January 1
Died: 1946
Died: January 1
Historian
Idist
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Writer
Bromley
London
Wells
Herbert George
Herbert George Wells
H.G. Wells
Good
Collapses
Calamity
Collapse
Religion

More quotes by H. G. Wells

Image
I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.
H. G. Wells
Image
When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.
H. G. Wells
Image
It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.
H. G. Wells
Image
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. Wells
Image
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
H. G. Wells
Image
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
Image
I hope, or I could not live.
H. G. Wells
Image
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. Wells
Image
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.
H. G. Wells
Image
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.
H. G. Wells
Image
If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting
H. G. Wells
Image
There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess
H. G. Wells
Image
Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.
H. G. Wells
Image
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
H. G. Wells
Image
The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.
H. G. Wells
Image
To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.
H. G. Wells
Image
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
H. G. Wells
Image
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.
H. G. Wells