Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Quote by H G Wells

Topics: Cynicism Quotes, Humor Quotes

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...

Our true nationality is mankind.

Our true nationality is mankind.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with...

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Advertising is legalized lying.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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...

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international...

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

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

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does...

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does...