William Ralph Inge Quotes
Most popular William Ralph Inge Quotes
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Civilization is a disease which is almost invariably fatal.
The enemies of Freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
Experience is a good teacher, though her fees are terribly high.
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
Like other idealisms, patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or another.
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and the passive.
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
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.
There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."
The command 'Be fruitful and multiply' was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people.
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity... Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
