William Inge quotes

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

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

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

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

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.