Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from William Ralph Inge

William Ralph Inge English author & Anglican prelate (1860 - 1954)


William Ralph Inge -
- The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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

William Ralph Inge - Outspoken Essays (1919)
- It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

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

William Ralph 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 Ralph Inge - 1920
- To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosohpy.