Inge, Dean William R. quotes
1860-1954 Dean of St Paul's LondonThere are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.
Inge, Dean William R.
Change
Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
Inge, Dean William R.
Literature
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
Inge, Dean William R.
Judgment and Judges
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
Inge, Dean William R.
Institutions
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
Inge, Dean William R.
Opinions
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
Inge, Dean William R.
Nationalities and Nationalism
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
Inge, Dean William R.
Plagiarism
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Inge, Dean William R.
Peace
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Inge, Dean William R.
Trouble
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Inge, Dean William R.
Religion
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can t sit on it.
Inge, Dean William R.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
Inge, Dean William R.
Society
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.
Inge, Dean William R.
Action
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Inge, Dean William R.
Age and Aging
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
Inge, Dean William R.
Consciousness
There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
Inge, Dean William R.
Consequences