Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: H G Wells Quotes

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been...

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our true nationality is mankind.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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

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

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that...

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...