Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Quote by H G Wells

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

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

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...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

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...

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

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

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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...

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

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

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them...

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.

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...

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a...

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not...