William Ralph Inge Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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)

  86 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

  61 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Knowledge, Facts

  Education (1917) ch. 2

  55 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Silence, Break

  14 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• 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”

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

• The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Men, Relative Value

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

  7 Copy quote

• 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)

  20 Copy quote

• There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

  William Ralph Inge

  Punishment, Rewards, Consequence

  7 Copy quote

• 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”

  13 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Noble

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

  10 Copy quote

• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

  William Ralph Inge

  Funny, Creativity, Originality

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

  24 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Struggle, Games, Life Is

  5 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Society, Age, Next

  10 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Color, Soul, Leisure

  6 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Church, Half, Speak

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Cutting, Clothes, Coats

  7 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Wisdom, Common Sense

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  24 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

  34 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

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

  William Ralph Inge

  Simplicity, Soul, Poverty

  15 Copy quote

Page 1 of 5

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin