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A. N. Wilson quotes

English Writer October 27, 1950

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A. N. Wilson quote: "I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of..."
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. A. N. Wilson
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together. A. N. Wilson
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes. A. N. Wilson
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch. A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson quote: "I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to..."
I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out. A. N. Wilson
Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. A. N. Wilson
Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed. A. N. Wilson
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. A. N. Wilson
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. A. N. Wilson
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. A. N. Wilson
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts. A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson quote: "I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have..."
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. A. N. Wilson
If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president. A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson quote: "Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and..."
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. A. N. Wilson
A. N. Wilson quote: "I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person...."
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. A. N. Wilson

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