66 Quotes by William Inge

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

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

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.