William Ralph Inge Age Quotations

The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.

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

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

My dear, we live in an age of transition.