66 Quotes by William Inge

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.