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27 quotes by William Ralph Inge

William Ralph Inge KCVO (/ˈɪŋ/; 6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge."
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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... →

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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

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Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

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

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