A. N. Wilson Quotes

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
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Happy, Made, National

I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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Best, Church, Loyal

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
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Sympathy, Honest, Dislike

I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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Boring, Here, Nor

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Work, Table, Corner

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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Strange, Idea, Beginning

I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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Nothing, Original

I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Life, Work, Study

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.
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Political, Giving, Her

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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Long, Book, Writing

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.
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Time, Great, Morning

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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Life, Companion, Grownup

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
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Society, Same, Whole

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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Knowledge, Bad, Past

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Life, Since, General

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Good, Influence, Early

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.
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Alone, Thoughts, Put

It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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Black, Rather, Few

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.
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Music, Sadness, Doubt

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Respect, Thoughts, Republican

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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Life, Write, Books

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.
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Great, Lost, Feelings

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Life, Become, Else

Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
A. N. Wilson

Taught, Finished, Rubbish

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 27, 1950

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