Inge, William Ralph

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." - in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant

"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 civilisation of the Fabians." - The End of an Age