William Ralph Inge Quotes

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Ralph Inge (1934). “Vale”

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• Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

  William Ralph Inge

  Nature, Action, Used

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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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• A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

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  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• The happy people are those who are producing something.

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  Inspirational, People, Happy People

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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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• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Originality

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

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• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

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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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• The Devil deserves zero tolerance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Zero, Tolerance, Devil

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• The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Wisdom, Common Sense

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• 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

  Average, Tyrants, Public Opinion

  Outspoken Essays Our Present Discontents (p. 9)

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• Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

  William Ralph Inge

  Spiritual, Joy, True Life

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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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• Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

  William Ralph Inge

  Battle, Half

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• To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

  William Ralph Inge

  Views

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• It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.

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  Real, Thinking, Two

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Hatred, Patriotism, Politics

  Sagittarius and George.

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• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

  William Ralph Inge

  Simplicity, Soul, Poverty

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