Asking Quote by A. N. Wilson

“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…” quote by A. N. Wilson — Download Open image

“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.”

A. N. Wilson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Asking Bad thing Cheer Cheer me up Features Green Might Notion Past Political Possibility President Time Used Want

More by A. N. Wilson

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

A. N. Wilson

Image

'In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.

A. N. Wilson

Image

I've got nothing very original to say myself.

A. N. Wilson

Image

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

A. N. Wilson

Image

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'…

A. N. Wilson

Image

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

A. N. Wilson

Image

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

A. N. Wilson

Image

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

A. N. Wilson

Image

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and…

A. N. Wilson

Image

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

A. N. Wilson

Image

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than…

A. N. Wilson

Image

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of…

A. N. Wilson