153 Quotes by A. N. Wilson

There's a combination of zonings that we have to make one zoning.

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.

Aberdeen likes to the work the ball, there were times when we were on defense for a minute and a half in the first half. But we didn't give up any back doors or any open shots - we were really patient hence the score was so low.

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

It's a double positive for growers and that translates into extra money.

It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.

It's not just burgers and sub sandwiches. ... There are franchises for everything from painting houses to delivering offices supplies.

Darth Vader portrayed as a Backstreet Boy gone bad.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.