“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.
