3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
3 December 2020 William Ralph Inge Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
