William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge
William Ralph Inge KCVOwas an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 June 1860
William Ralph Inge quotes about
age church widows
The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
age society next
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
thinking age fifty
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
parent age paradise
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."
age transition dear
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
man sit
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
bored discover imagination nobody trying
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.
philosophy mean thinking
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
beautiful cousin animal
Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.
originality plagiarism unconscious
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
parent special pedestal
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
god thinking play
We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
teacher good-teacher fees
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.