Famous Quotes / William Ralph Inge
10 Quotations by William Ralph Inge
- 1. A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.
- 2. A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- 3. Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which d ...
- 4. It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in f ...
- 5. The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are ...
- 6. The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming ...
- 7. The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born
- 8. The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
- 9. There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill ...
- 10. We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and fe ...