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Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.
— William Ralph Inge
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.
— Dean Inge
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
— William Ralph Inge
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.
— William Ralph Inge
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
— William Ralph Inge
Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism. — William Ralph Inge
dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism. — William Ralph Inge
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
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
— William Ralph Inge
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
— William Ralph Inge
We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances.
— William Ralph Inge
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
— William Ralph Inge
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
— William Ralph Inge
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
— Dean Inge
It takes strong men and women to love ... people strong enough inside themselves to love ... without humiliation.
— William Inge
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
— William Ralph Inge
The happy people are those who are producing something ...
— William Ralph Inge
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
— William Ralph Inge
All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.
— William Ralph Inge
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
— William Ralph Inge
From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men
— William Inge
This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.
— William Ralph Inge
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
— William Ralph Inge
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
— William Inge
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
— William Ralph Inge
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
— William Ralph Inge
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
— William Inge
No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.
— William Ralph Inge