Benedict Nightingale speaking of Dean Inge: [William Inge] handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang.
Quotes by William Inge
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
Religion is a way of walking, not a way of talking.
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.









