A. N. Wilson quotes - page 2

I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England. (A. N. Wilson)
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed. View quote
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. View quote
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria. View quote
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. View quote
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. View quote
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father. View quote
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love. View quote
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I wanted passionately to be a priest. View quote
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man. View quote
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. (A. N. Wilson)
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. View quote
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. View quote
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I had lost faith in biography. View quote
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. View quote
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. View quote
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out. View quote
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio. View quote
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. View quote
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I don't write books inadvertently. View quote
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there. (A. N. Wilson)

A. N. Wilson

A. N. Wilson - Image
Photo: Roger Green, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: British Poet
Born: October 27, 1950
Quotes count: 46
Wikipedia: A. N. Wilson

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