Famous Quotes by William Ralph Inge

Below are famous quotes by William Ralph Inge - English author & Anglican prelate (1860 - 1954).

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

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.

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