Explore Quotes by William Ralph Inge

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.

The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

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

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

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.