02UndatedThe proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
04UndatedPublic opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
05UndatedThere are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good' the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
06UndatedA good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
07UndatedIt is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
08UndatedThe enemies of Freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
09UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
10UndatedMan 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 / quote ↗
11UndatedMany people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
12UndatedLet none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
13UndatedIt is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
14UndatedThe nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
15UndatedThe whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat in the active and passive.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
16UndatedPublic opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.Dean William R. Inge / quote ↗
