William Ralph Inge Quotes

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

The 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.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

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.