Quote

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
People
Repelled
Attracted
Mankind
History
Nature
Many
Believe
Men

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
William Ralph Inge
Image
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
William Ralph Inge
Image
This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
William Ralph Inge
Image
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
William Ralph Inge
Image
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
Image
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
William Ralph Inge
Image
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge