A. N. Wilson Quotes

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• 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…
• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their…
• We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
• This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which…
• I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man:…
• I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
• As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.
• Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by…
• In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
• One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he…
• My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints,…
• I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug…
• In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than by…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
• I wanted passionately to be a priest.
• I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
• 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,…

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