138 Quotes by William Ralph Inge

Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

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

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

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

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

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 world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.