William Inge Quotes

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

William Inge

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

William Inge

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

William Inge

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

William Inge

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

William Inge

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

William Inge

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

William Inge

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

William Inge

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

William Inge

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.

William Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

William Inge

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

William Inge

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

William Inge