William Inge
Clergyman
1860-06-06
Quotes by William Inge
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I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
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Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?
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I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
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Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.
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Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average person.
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
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Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
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