William Inge

“In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.”

“To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.”

“Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.”

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

“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.”

“A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.”

“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”

“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”

“Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.”

“All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.”

“Originality is undetected plagiarism.”

“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.”

“There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.”

“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

“It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”

“Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

“The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.”

“We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.”

“True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.”