William Ralph Inge Quotes
"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Age, Spirit, Will)
"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Religion, Creation, Devil, Doubt, Rest)
"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Faith, Belief, Values, Reality)
"There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Consequences)
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Society, Ancestry, Delusion, Hatred, Nation, United)
"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Man, May)
"Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: God, Nature, People, Man)
"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Events, May, Past)
"Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Life, Hope, Reflection, Theater)
"Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival."
- William Ralph Inge
"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Sense)
"I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Time, Conscience)
"In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Solution, Will)
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Wisdom, Mankind)
"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Enemies, Freedom)
"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Art, Literature, Trade)
"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Interest, Trouble, Worry)
"No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Optimism, Christian, Christianity, Radical)
"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Trying)
"Originality is undetected plagiarism."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Originality, Plagiarism)
"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Opportunity, Gentleman, Prayer)
"Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Life, Content, Opinion, Public, Public opinion)
"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: People, Being, Cause)
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Education, Knowledge, Values, Facts)
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Opinion, Sheep, Vegetarianism)
"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
- William Ralph Inge
(Related: Religion, Philosophy, Popular, Superstition)