Quotes by A. N. Wilson

A. N. Wilson

English writer and columnist

Lived from: 1950 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 27 october 1950

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  • Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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  • A busybody's work is never done.
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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 female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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  • Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. His influence on the dissident writers of the Soviet Uniton was enormous. Figures like Grossman or Solzhenitsyn, although their language is less elevated, were dominated by a Tolstoyan desire to use fiction to tell the truth of history.
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  • 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: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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  • I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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  • I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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  • I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
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  • 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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  • In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.
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  • In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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What are the most famous quotes from A. N. Wilson?

The two most famous quotes from A. N. Wilson are:

  • "Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed."
  • "A busybody's work is never done."

When did A. N. Wilson live?

A. N. Wilson is still alive and was born in 1950.