William Ralph Inge

Who was William Ralph Inge?

William Ralph Inge KCVO was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, "Dean Inge."

Famous Quotes:

• Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
• 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.
• There are no rewards or punishments -- only consequences.
• In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
• There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.
• Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.
• A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
• How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
• What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
• 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.