“Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.”
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“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.”
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“Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.”
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“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.”
Dean William R. Inge