Quote

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
Feels
Measured
Much
Simplicity
Poverty
Wealth
Littles
Soul
Little
Feel

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
William Ralph Inge
Image
My dear, we live in an age of transition.
William Ralph Inge
Image
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Over-population is a phenomenon connected with the survival of the unfit, and it is a mechanism which has created conditions favourable to the survival of the unfit and the elimination of the fit.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The happy people are those who are producing something.
William Ralph Inge
Image
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.
William Ralph Inge
Image
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Originality is undetected plagiarism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.
William Ralph Inge
Image
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Ralph Inge