Angus Wilson > Quotes

“ 'April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.' ”
― Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter

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

Raspberry Jam”
― Angus Wilson, The Pan Book of Horror Stories

“Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.”
― Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter

“...Life can't be put on paper in all its complexity.”
― Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter

“Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.”
― Angus Wilson, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

“Fiction writing is a kind of magic. If I communicate the magic spell . . . it loses its force for me.”
― Angus Wilson

“ 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.”
― Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter

“I suppose the fascination of gardening lies a lot in the way one can plan for the future. Especially in such an insecure world. I open my morning paper and read of some fresh new horror the scientists have devised and then I plan some change in the garden that won’t be fully realized for at least five or six years. It’s illogical, of course, but it’s some comfort.”
― Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot

“one always seemed to be getting too old for something.”
― Angus Wilson, Raspberry Jam

“But you mustn't be too sane, darlings. It really won't do in this family.”
― Angus Wilson

“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, No Laughing Matter