Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Edward Gibbon: 'Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I wanted passionately to be a priest.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'A busybody's work is never done.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'The scribbler's life is never done.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I don't write books inadvertently.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: ''In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.' Read More Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Edward Gibbon: 'Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I wanted passionately to be a priest.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'A busybody's work is never done.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'The scribbler's life is never done.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I don't write books inadvertently.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: ''In Memoriam' has been my companion for all my grownup life.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 A. N. Wilson: 'Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.' Read More
Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Quote Meanings 11/12/23 Max Beerbohm: 'A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.' Read More