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William Inge

playwright, novelist, screenwriter, writer, television actor, teacher

1913 – 1973

William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. In the early 1950s he had a string of memorable Broadway productions, including Picnic, which earned him a Pulitzer Prize. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest".

All Quotes by William Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Inge

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.

William Inge

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

William Inge

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

William Inge

A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it.

William Inge

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

William Inge

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

William Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Inge

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

William Inge

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

William Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

William Inge