William Ralph Inge Quotes

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• 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

  Cousin, Animal, Rights

  Outspoken Essays: Second Series "The Idea of Progress" (1922)

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• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Knowledge, Facts

  Education (1917) ch. 2

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• Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Silence, Break

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• Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

  William Ralph Inge

  Teacher, Good Teacher, Fees

  William Ralph Inge (1927). “The church in the world: collected essays”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

  William Ralph Inge

  Honesty, Supposing That, Policy

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Sheep, Vegetarianism, Different

  Outspoken Essays: First Series "Patriotism" (1919)

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• The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, People, Bored

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

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• Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beautiful, Ideas, Doe

  William Ralph Inge (1907). “Studies of English Mystics: St. Margaret's Lectures, 1905”

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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Originality

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Men, Progress, Obstacles

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Ralph Inge (1934). “Vale”

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• We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.

  William Ralph Inge

  Cutting, Clothes, Coats

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• The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

  William Ralph Inge

  Struggle, Games, Life Is

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• Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.

  William Ralph Inge

  Survival, Population, Fit

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• Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Originality, Plagiarism, Unconscious

  Quoted in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant (1927)

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• Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

  William Ralph Inge

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Noble

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Sarcastic, Wise, Sarcasm

  William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell

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• The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.

  William Ralph Inge

  Color, Soul, Leisure

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

  William Ralph Inge

  Society, Age, Next

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• The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

  William Ralph Inge

  Freedom, Technology, Enemy

  End of an Age (1948) ch. 4

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• The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

  William Ralph Inge

  Church, Half, Speak

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