Dean William R. Inge Quotes

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

The enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.

It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.

Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.