We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.
A. N. WilsonWatching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. WilsonIt is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. WilsonBrain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. WilsonI should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. WilsonIn the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
A. N. Wilson