Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
Dean William R. Inge
Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
Dean William R. Inge
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.
Dean William R. Inge
A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.
Dean William R. Inge
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.