Quotes by William Inge

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

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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

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"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

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"The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot."

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"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."

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"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."

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"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true."

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"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values."

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

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"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

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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."

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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."

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"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."

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