“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”

— H. G. Wells, book The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299
Context: Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. It is the peculiar snare of the perplexed orthodox, and soon Mr. Brumley was in a state of nearly unendurable moral indignation with Sir Isaac for a hundred exaggerations of what he was and of what conceivably he might have done to his silent yet manifestly unsuitably married wife.

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English writer 1866–1946

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