William Ralph Inge Quotes

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

Religion, Human, Doubt

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Ralph Inge

Before, Worry, Trouble

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge

Knowledge, Education, Values

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge

Happy, Seem, Cause

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

Patriotism, Society, Hatred

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

Different, Opinion, While

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
William Ralph Inge

Beautiful, True, Bored

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
William Ralph Inge

Life, Hope, Before

Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
William Ralph Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

Wisdom, Mankind, Governed

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

Mean, Prayer, Getting

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Ralph Inge

Christian, Optimism, System

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge

Past, May, Matter

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Ralph Inge

Life, Mental, Habits

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

Within, Hated, Rival

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

Time, Best, Often

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge

Best, Art, Half

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

Life, Person, Opinion

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
William Ralph Inge

May, Himself, Sit

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

Why, Sense, Understood

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge

Sure, Logical, Dealing

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Ralph Inge

Nature, God, Attracted

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
William Ralph Inge

Freedom, Argue, Shout

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Ralph Inge

Religion, Philosophy, Become

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 6, 1860

Died: February 26, 1954

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