Quotes from William Ralph Inge

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

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

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

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

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

The command "Be fruitful and multiply" was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people.

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

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

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

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

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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

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

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.