Quotes of Dean Inge - somelinesforyou

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

- Dean Inge

“ Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ”

- Dean Inge

“ I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. ”

- Dean Inge

“ It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ”

- Dean Inge

“ The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. ”

- Dean Inge

“ God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul. ”

- Dean Inge

“ God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul. ”

- Dean Inge

“ A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it. ”

- Dean Inge

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

- Dean Inge

“ Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. ”

- Dean Inge

“ 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.". ”

- Dean Inge

“ All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ”

- Dean Inge

“ We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. ”

- Dean Inge

“ It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. ”

- Dean Inge

“ The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ”

- Dean Inge

“ It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ”

- Dean Inge

“ The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ”

- Dean Inge

“ The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. ”

- Dean Inge

“ It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. ”

- Dean Inge

“ Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ”

- Dean Inge
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