William Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour 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.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

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

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.

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

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