William Inge Quotes:
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
William Inge
A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.
William Inge
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can’t sit on it.
William Inge
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Inge
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
William Inge
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
William Inge
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Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.
William Inge
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Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
William Inge
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
William Inge
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
William Inge
Don’t get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
William Inge
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Inge
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Inge
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
William Inge
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
William Inge
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
William Inge
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Inge
I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
William Inge
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.
William Inge
If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
William Inge
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Inge
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
William Inge
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Inge
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Inge
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.
William Inge
It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
William Inge
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Inge
Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.
William Inge
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
William Inge
Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Inge
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
William Inge
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
William Inge
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Inge
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Inge
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
William Inge
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William Inge
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
William Inge
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Inge
The object of studying philosophy is to know one’s own mind, not other people’s.
William Inge
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
William Inge
The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts.
William Inge
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
William Inge
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
William Inge
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
William Inge
There are no rewards or punishments – only consequences.
William Inge
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
William Inge
True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
William Inge
We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.
William Inge
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
William Inge
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
William Inge
Who is William Inge?
William Motter Inge was an American dramatist and novelist known for portraying isolated protagonists with troubled sexual relationships in his works. He had a succession of notable Broadway shows in the early 1950s, including Picnic, which won him a Pulitzer Prize.