The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
“it is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share 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… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share 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… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share 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… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
