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

— H. G. Wells

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

— H. G. Wells

Advertising is legalized lying.

— H. G. Wells

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

— 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

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

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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

— H. G. Wells

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

— H. G. Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

— H. G. Wells