21 Quotes by Angus Wilson

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.

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

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

'April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.'

She was more than ever proud of the position of the bungalow, so almost in the country.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

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.