66 Quotes by William Inge

People distrust you if you don’t play the same games they do, Sonny. It’s the same after you grow up.

I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

I’ll be darned if I’d let any man tell me whether I could bob my hair or not. Why, I wouldn’t go back to long hair now for anything. Morris says maybe I should take up smoking cigarettes now. Would you believe it, Cora? Women all over Oklahoma City are smoking cigarettes now. Isn’t that disgraceful? What in God’s name are we all coming to?

Success, it seems to me, would be somewhat meaningless if the play were not a personal contribution. The author who creates only for audience consumption is only engaged in a financial enterprise.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

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.