Quotes by Angus Wilson

About Angus Wilson:

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.
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Between Margaret's fine edged art and Glady's rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

Angus Wilson

'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

Angus Wilson

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get there.

Angus Wilson

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

Angus Wilson

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

Angus Wilson

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Angus Wilson

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Angus Wilson

Author Bio

  • NameAngus Wilson
  • Descriptionbritish author
  • BornAugust 11, 1913
  • DiedMay 31, 1991
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionLibrarian
  • WorksAnglo-Saxon Attitudes; The Middle Age Of Mrs Eliot
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire; James Tait Black Memorial Prize