13 Quotations by William R. Inge
- 1. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

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

- 3. Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. ...

- 4. I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has ...

- 5. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of ...

- 6. Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge o ...

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

- 8. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mea ...

- 9. Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for a ...

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

- 11. To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.

- 12. We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe ...

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

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