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Category: Dean William R. Inge

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

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

leaders, leadership

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

Man as we know him is a poor creature but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Dean William R. Inge

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

Dean William R. Inge

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

history, historians

Dean William R. Inge

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

government, rule